I Sometimes Think Essays for the Young People

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I Sometimes Think Essays for the Young People
Stephen Paget
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All questions of size are spiritual ques- tions. For shopping, Oxford Street ; for rank and fashion, Mayfair ; for religion, St. Paul's. That bit of Mayfair was one of the best-proportioned streets in London, till that house was put in it, a feature too large for the rest of the face.
Have no reverence for the mere size of any build- ing, nor for its mere weight and solidity : think first what the building is for. The size of the dome of St. Paul's is delightful, because St. Paul's is St. Paul'
...s : the massiveness of the Tower of London is delightful, because it was built as a fortress and a prison. But weight and solidity without sufficient purpose are not worth looking at. I am thinking of the Gaiety Theatre, and of a business-house in Regent Street. The one provides light amusement ; the other provides gossamer goods, laces, handker- 102 I SOMETIMES THINK vi chiefs, lawn as white as driven snow. For these uses, very high walls of marble and of granite are excessive. The theatre, being in the Italian style, might do for a castle for Caesar Boro-ia : the linen to o warehouse, armed in Northern granite, might do for Macbeth : but why should either of them, dealing in such flimsy goods, lay such a heavy weight on earth?

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