. Armour engineer. The Colos.«eum, three feet wide, and is three miles long. The tunnel was begunsimultaneously at the two ends and met exactly in the mid-dle, on July 3, A. D. 88! What is true of Rome is true in onlya less degree of the architectural magnificence of the citiesof the empire, now in ruins or utterly returned to dust. There is no space to mention here the glories of Alexan-dria, Ephesus or Baalbec. We gaze in wonder at the tri-lithon of the Temple of the Sun at Baalbec. Three stones,each about 63 feet long, 12 feet high and 11 feet thick, weigh-ing about 700 tons apiece arc n st
. Armour engineer. The Colos.«eum, three feet wide, and is three miles long. The tunnel was begunsimultaneously at the two ends and met exactly in the mid-dle, on July 3, A. D. 88! What is true of Rome is true in onlya less degree of the architectural magnificence of the citiesof the empire, now in ruins or utterly returned to dust. There is no space to mention here the glories of Alexan-dria, Ephesus or Baalbec. We gaze in wonder at the tri-lithon of the Temple of the Sun at Baalbec. Three stones,each about 63 feet long, 12 feet high and 11 feet thick, weigh-ing about 700 tons apiece arc n sting on the temple wall 25 162 THE ARMOUR ENGINEER [May. 1910 feet above the ground! How were they transported from thequarry, five miles away, and how were they placed in position?For the 500 years or more after the fall of Rome in the fifthcentury, these stupendous structures were without doubt acause of wonderment to the barbarians and their descendantsof the dark ages. At any rate little was done till after the. Fig. 2. Amiens 1000. the millenium, the dies irae which should signal-ize the end of the world. That date happily passed. Thebuilders again took courage and started the construction ofbuildings which were to develop into the glorious Gothic ofthe thirteenth century. Vol. II. No. 2] ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE : TALLMADGE 163 The Gothic cathedrals of the 13th century stand at thepinnacle of human endeavor in architecture, side by side withthe Greek Temple of the Periclean Age. They typify, glorifyand render incarnate the extatic faith of the middle are causes of wonder to us from the points of view of artand science. The architect realizes in contemplation of thehave at Amiens or the facade at Notre Dame, that such perfec-tion of architectural expression is utterly beyond him orhis age. The 20th century has turned to other forms of human en-deavor to express its genius. Architecture is no longer thephysical expression of the spirit of the age. There
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