Hopes And Fears for Art

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Hopes And Fears for Art
Morris, William, 1834-1896
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Well, I have spoken of three qualifications to that degradation of our dwellings which charac- terizes this period of history only.
' First, there are the very few houses which have been left us from the times of art. Except that we Digitized by Google 1 20 Making the Best of it.
may sometimes have the pleasure of seeing these, we most of us have little enough to do with them.
Secondly, there are those houses of the times when, though art was sick and all but dead, men had not quite given it up
... as a bad job, and at any rate had not learned systematic bad building ; and when, moreover, they had what they wanted, and their lives were expressed by their architecture.
Of these there are still left a good many all over | the country, but they are lessening fast before the ' irresistible force of competition, and will soon be very rare indeed.
Thirdly, there are a few houses built and mostly inhabited by the ringleaders of the rebellion against sordid ugliness, which we are met here to further to-night It is clear that as yet these are very few, or you could never have thought it worth your while to com^ here to hear the simple words I have to say to.


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