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Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: American literature
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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lar art, of which there were notheorizing, dogmatizing, controlling professors,but to which few men were wholly strange.It was merely a part and parcel of the worldsgeneral work, practiced spontaneously anddeveloped unconsciously with the generaldevelopment of the people. And, as the futuremust always repeat the past — again an as-sumption which I quote — never, unless the box, and sprang from a truly popular desireto give this a beauty it too plainly lacked.There is plenty of literature relating to itsdevelopment, but literature only of a certainkind, in the shape of curiously illiteratehand-books for the use of client and mechanic,filled with ready-made designs which are pro-lifically varied, and yet are alike from first tolast in their general spirit and effect. Thegreat number of such books — Every Manhis Own Architect may be given as theirgeneric title — goes far to prove the unpro-fessional, spontaneously popular nature of themovement; and the entire absence of all other
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VESTIBULE, ARCH, AND SCREEN IN MR. VILLARD S HOUSE. same state of things can be brought aboutwith us, need we hope to see a living, char-acteristic, national, and therefore worthyarchitectural movement. In view of such theories, it may be instruc-tive to call attention to the fact that ourcountry is the only one which in this age hasknown a development such as they approve.Our rural vernacular developed in igno-rance, not in knowledge; instinctively, notself-consciously; and it was wrought by thehand of artisans, and not of an educated archi-tectural profession. It took nothing from the earlier colonialwork ; it was based wholly on the wooden contemporary literature, theoretic or critical,is sufficient to complete the evidence. Thesecopy-books, assisted by the witness of ourmemory, show how we went to work to giveour box more architecture. Intelligentthought was not the wind that filled our sails,nor was trained skill at the helm. A vague, igno-rant wish for something agreeable to the

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