IN trying to train the mind to judge of works of architecture; one can never be too patient. It is very easy to hinder onersquo;s growth in knowledge by being too ready to decide. The student of art who is much under the influence of one teacher; one writer; or one body of fellow-students; is hampered by that influence just so far as it is exclusive. And most teachers; most writers; most groups or classes of students are exclusive; admiring one set of principles or the practice of one epoch; to the partial exclusion of others.The reader must feel assured that there are no authorities at all in the matter of architectural appreciation: and that the only opinions; or impressions; or comparative appreciations that are worth anything to him are those which he will form gradually for himself. He will form them slowly; if he be wise: indeed; if he have the gift of artistic appreciation at all; he will soon learn to form them slowly. He will; moreover; hold them lightly even when formed; remembering that in a subject on which opinions differ so very widely at any one time; and have differed so much more widely if one epoch be compared with another; there can be no such thing as a final judgment.
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