. Villas and cottages . to the main drain. Once ayear, perhaps, the pipe and smallcess-pool should be cleaned out;but it will be readily seen that this is a simple andshort operation. From the omission to take someprecaution of this kind, families are frequently an-noyed both by bad smells from their drains (for thisgreasy, soapy deposit is more foul than any other)and by the inconvenience and expense of taking upand relaying long lengths of stopped-up drain-pipe ev-ery now and then. Having thus briefly remarked on the plan or con-venient arrangement of the accommodation, we pro-ceed to the ar
. Villas and cottages . to the main drain. Once ayear, perhaps, the pipe and smallcess-pool should be cleaned out;but it will be readily seen that this is a simple andshort operation. From the omission to take someprecaution of this kind, families are frequently an-noyed both by bad smells from their drains (for thisgreasy, soapy deposit is more foul than any other)and by the inconvenience and expense of taking upand relaying long lengths of stopped-up drain-pipe ev-ery now and then. Having thus briefly remarked on the plan or con-venient arrangement of the accommodation, we pro-ceed to the artistic design of rural buildings, particu-larly of their exteriors, and we must take care, at theoutset, not to be deceived as to the true principlesand laws that regulate this important part of thesubject. Architecture is entirely the invention of man, and,as it expresses his needs and his nature, it must neces-sarily be regulated by the laws to which he is the same time, it is equally clear that it can have. 62 VILLAS AND COTTAGES. no independent laws of its own, simply because it hasno independent existence. As it seeks to please theeye, its forms and colors should be carefully designedin accordance with the laws of the eye, or it will be afailure, so far as this organ is concerned. As it ad-dresses itself to the intellect, it ought to be orderlyand without any appearance of accident in its concep-tion, or it will appear unintellectual. As it appealsto the heart, it requires to be forcibly and artisticallytrue in its expression, or it will remain a lifeless col-lection of mere building materials; and as it ministersto the soul, it must be beautiful and pure in its inten-tion, or it will be ugly and baneful in its is always the mirror of its age, accurately reflectingthe customs, morals, and science that prevail in anynation at a given period; and as these have been dis-similar at different times and places, architecture hasnaturally crystallized in va
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