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Classical Theology—Li.
observed , distinctly adverse to that of the Talmud . AA'hich asserts that tlie soul AA'as forced to take up its humanit y as a consequence of its Avelfare , doubtless resting on the promise of a saviour—whilst with the Pythagoreans , human life itself Avas seriously vievred as a penal bondage , more or less severe , in accordance Avith the soul's
previous guilt . rfor did this servitude terminate unredeemed here , excepting in the Avorking out of its freedom , by a well spent life . As regarded by some it descended into brutes ; ifc was lowered into insects ; and even degraded into plants—whence , from its apportioned penalty , it mi ght aspire to re-ascend in the scale of
creation from the mere vegetable to the Iranian being , and in this latter stage even aspire to ih . s perfection of a deity . It has been said that this descri p tion of the soul ' s chastisement A \* as always recognised by the Py thagoreans as temporary , or having a termination , and that consequently there Avere final limitations to its purgatorial transits , ifet still , although Pindar may have represented this sort of transmigration of tho soul as a
condenvnntioTi at least thrice required before its positive discharge from its mortal prisonhouse , and its entrance into the celestial dominions of the blessed ; this doctrine is so opposed to logical reason , and adverse to knowledge , that ii must be considered as belonging more to tho conceits of Oriel ' s metamorphosis . In . evidence of this , we have certain holy authority in the account of the
easting out of devils , as given by Sfc . Mark in the fifth chapter of Iris Gospel , which Avill show these spirits as doomed to the exorcism of the Hol y Spirit , and at the same time having tlie sense and power toe :: erica te themselves from transmigration and embodiment : —
"And ho answered , saying my name is Legion , for AVO aro many . Aud all the devils besought Him , saying , send us into the swine , that wo may enter into them . And forth - ivith Jesus gvive thorn leave . And the unclean spirits went out , and entered into tho swine ; and the herd ran violently down a steep place into tho soa ( they wero about two thousand } ; and v ,-ere choked in tho soa . "
Architechre And Archæology.
ARCHITECHRE AND ARCH ? OLOGY .
AEOHITSOT UEAL STUDY AWD ABOHITECTiJBAL PBOGBES 8 * After numerous perils and vicissitudes , the Architectural Association is now aboufc to outer the sixteenth year of its existence , and wo may fairly hope that it will now prove to
have outgrown most of those youthful disorders which havo more than once ( with thc assistance , perhaps , of friends and doctors ) , brought . ifc A'ory nearly to a premature end . Ifc Avill bo our own fault if it does not continue year by year to enlarge its sphere of usefulness , and to satisfy more fully r » want which , I havo no hesitation in saying , would oven now bo keenl y felt by a considerable circle in the event of
its dissolution . VVo have heard an encouraging report of the proceedings of last session , and I need scarcely remind you thafc in the year before us Ave shall have rich opportunities of observation and study in tho forthcoming Great Exhibition , which cannot fail ( if we use our time properly ) to produce a good effect iu developing Avhat I arjprehcnd to be "; tho groat ' end and object of this Association , viz .: " Mutual assistance aud improvement in prosecuting the study of Architecture as
au AH . " I lay stress on this word art , because I feel that into some of our discussions too much of what I may call the business elements find its way , to the no small detriment of that artistic progress which ought , I think , more exclusively to occupy our attention as students . 1 must nofc , of course , he understood by this to undervalue the business element in its proper placenor to deny in any way
, its indispensable necessity to every architect in practice . But as a body AVO arc not in practice , and Avhether in practice or not AVO arc still young , and the majority of us afc least have that time IIOAV to devote to artistic self-improvement Avhich each successive year will render it more difficulfc to find . It seems to mo that in an Association of this kind , composed of students ( for AVO aro all studentsand for the
, most part young students ) , more real practical good would bo dono by the members uniting as one man in trying to understand thoroughly , and help forward honestly , the development of true principles of art , than in discussing questions which might well be left to those Avhose opinions Avhen published are likely to carry weight and authority The nearer , in fact , AVO approach the character of a juvenile
debating society , in Avhich the most difficult political questions of tho clay arc gravely discussed and decided by an assembly of beardless youths , the further shall AVO bo from reaching any useful result . Banded together and firmly united in a common honest purpose , as arfc students deter-2 iihied to cai-ry out true principles at any cost , we may and -must work out great and lasting effects on the progress of
architecture , this , to my mind , is our proper province , and as ifc is a point that has perhaps been rather lost sight of in tho last few years , I purpose this evening to address myself more directly than is usual on these occasions to the members of this body . During the past session a very great deal has been said , aud I believe somctliuicr has been done , towards the
settlement of that long-mooted question , the establishment of an Architectural Exhibition . The subject has naturally excited much , interest amongst ourselves , more especially as I believe it was by the Association that such a . proposal was first started . Many—I believe I may say a large majority—confidentially foretell that such an examination , when fairly sot going , will havo tho effect of raising the
standard of the profession , and of excluding ignorant and incompetent persons from practising as architects . This result is , no doubt , much to bo desired ; but , as I have already stated my opinion , with tire reasons for that opinion , and found myself in a small minority , I Avill not enter on tiro subject now . I cannot help noticing , however , that in tho course of tho A'arious discussions Avhich I have read
and heard , several theories havo been alluded to as acknowledged truths , which have struck me wifch extreme surprise . Por instance , I havo heard it casually stated , as a matter of course , at ono of these discussions , " That a young architect should study every style , in order to be ready to meet tho possible Avish . es of his client . KOAV , of course , in pronouncing * this theory to be simply monstrous , I have no Avish to set a limit ( especially in this direction ) to tho study of all that is great and good in art of every period
snd every clime ; bufc the idea of attempting to carry out thc theory of -practising every knoAvn style , to me , I must confess , suggests nothing so vividly as tho conjnrors ' s inexhaustible bottle , Avhich is always ready Avith a modicum and thafc sufficiently bad , bo it remembered ) of any liquor thafc may bo asked for . Thc counter theory is that a man must , lie frill of one style , just as a bottle must be full of
ono wine to give it really good . Tho rapid and apparently perfectly natural and easy change from ono style to another of totally opposite principles Avill to some minds smack more of the dexterity of tho charlatan than of tho sober earnestness of purpose of the true artist . But AVO arc told that " Ave ought to bo reacl y to moot the wishes of our client—to bow to his choice of
style . " Our client , on tho contrary , if AVO Avere united in purpose , as Ave ought to be , or , in other words , if ours Avere an age of true art , should , have absolutel y no choice as to style . A patient does not tell his physician what medicine to give him—he tells his symptoms , and the doctor prescribes ; so your client should tell you his requirements , the money at his disposal , and so forth , and these you should
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Classical Theology—Li.
observed , distinctly adverse to that of the Talmud . AA'hich asserts that tlie soul AA'as forced to take up its humanit y as a consequence of its Avelfare , doubtless resting on the promise of a saviour—whilst with the Pythagoreans , human life itself Avas seriously vievred as a penal bondage , more or less severe , in accordance Avith the soul's
previous guilt . rfor did this servitude terminate unredeemed here , excepting in the Avorking out of its freedom , by a well spent life . As regarded by some it descended into brutes ; ifc was lowered into insects ; and even degraded into plants—whence , from its apportioned penalty , it mi ght aspire to re-ascend in the scale of
creation from the mere vegetable to the Iranian being , and in this latter stage even aspire to ih . s perfection of a deity . It has been said that this descri p tion of the soul ' s chastisement A \* as always recognised by the Py thagoreans as temporary , or having a termination , and that consequently there Avere final limitations to its purgatorial transits , ifet still , although Pindar may have represented this sort of transmigration of tho soul as a
condenvnntioTi at least thrice required before its positive discharge from its mortal prisonhouse , and its entrance into the celestial dominions of the blessed ; this doctrine is so opposed to logical reason , and adverse to knowledge , that ii must be considered as belonging more to tho conceits of Oriel ' s metamorphosis . In . evidence of this , we have certain holy authority in the account of the
easting out of devils , as given by Sfc . Mark in the fifth chapter of Iris Gospel , which Avill show these spirits as doomed to the exorcism of the Hol y Spirit , and at the same time having tlie sense and power toe :: erica te themselves from transmigration and embodiment : —
"And ho answered , saying my name is Legion , for AVO aro many . Aud all the devils besought Him , saying , send us into the swine , that wo may enter into them . And forth - ivith Jesus gvive thorn leave . And the unclean spirits went out , and entered into tho swine ; and the herd ran violently down a steep place into tho soa ( they wero about two thousand } ; and v ,-ere choked in tho soa . "
Architechre And Archæology.
ARCHITECHRE AND ARCH ? OLOGY .
AEOHITSOT UEAL STUDY AWD ABOHITECTiJBAL PBOGBES 8 * After numerous perils and vicissitudes , the Architectural Association is now aboufc to outer the sixteenth year of its existence , and wo may fairly hope that it will now prove to
have outgrown most of those youthful disorders which havo more than once ( with thc assistance , perhaps , of friends and doctors ) , brought . ifc A'ory nearly to a premature end . Ifc Avill bo our own fault if it does not continue year by year to enlarge its sphere of usefulness , and to satisfy more fully r » want which , I havo no hesitation in saying , would oven now bo keenl y felt by a considerable circle in the event of
its dissolution . VVo have heard an encouraging report of the proceedings of last session , and I need scarcely remind you thafc in the year before us Ave shall have rich opportunities of observation and study in tho forthcoming Great Exhibition , which cannot fail ( if we use our time properly ) to produce a good effect iu developing Avhat I arjprehcnd to be "; tho groat ' end and object of this Association , viz .: " Mutual assistance aud improvement in prosecuting the study of Architecture as
au AH . " I lay stress on this word art , because I feel that into some of our discussions too much of what I may call the business elements find its way , to the no small detriment of that artistic progress which ought , I think , more exclusively to occupy our attention as students . 1 must nofc , of course , he understood by this to undervalue the business element in its proper placenor to deny in any way
, its indispensable necessity to every architect in practice . But as a body AVO arc not in practice , and Avhether in practice or not AVO arc still young , and the majority of us afc least have that time IIOAV to devote to artistic self-improvement Avhich each successive year will render it more difficulfc to find . It seems to mo that in an Association of this kind , composed of students ( for AVO aro all studentsand for the
, most part young students ) , more real practical good would bo dono by the members uniting as one man in trying to understand thoroughly , and help forward honestly , the development of true principles of art , than in discussing questions which might well be left to those Avhose opinions Avhen published are likely to carry weight and authority The nearer , in fact , AVO approach the character of a juvenile
debating society , in Avhich the most difficult political questions of tho clay arc gravely discussed and decided by an assembly of beardless youths , the further shall AVO bo from reaching any useful result . Banded together and firmly united in a common honest purpose , as arfc students deter-2 iihied to cai-ry out true principles at any cost , we may and -must work out great and lasting effects on the progress of
architecture , this , to my mind , is our proper province , and as ifc is a point that has perhaps been rather lost sight of in tho last few years , I purpose this evening to address myself more directly than is usual on these occasions to the members of this body . During the past session a very great deal has been said , aud I believe somctliuicr has been done , towards the
settlement of that long-mooted question , the establishment of an Architectural Exhibition . The subject has naturally excited much , interest amongst ourselves , more especially as I believe it was by the Association that such a . proposal was first started . Many—I believe I may say a large majority—confidentially foretell that such an examination , when fairly sot going , will havo tho effect of raising the
standard of the profession , and of excluding ignorant and incompetent persons from practising as architects . This result is , no doubt , much to bo desired ; but , as I have already stated my opinion , with tire reasons for that opinion , and found myself in a small minority , I Avill not enter on tiro subject now . I cannot help noticing , however , that in tho course of tho A'arious discussions Avhich I have read
and heard , several theories havo been alluded to as acknowledged truths , which have struck me wifch extreme surprise . Por instance , I havo heard it casually stated , as a matter of course , at ono of these discussions , " That a young architect should study every style , in order to be ready to meet tho possible Avish . es of his client . KOAV , of course , in pronouncing * this theory to be simply monstrous , I have no Avish to set a limit ( especially in this direction ) to tho study of all that is great and good in art of every period
snd every clime ; bufc the idea of attempting to carry out thc theory of -practising every knoAvn style , to me , I must confess , suggests nothing so vividly as tho conjnrors ' s inexhaustible bottle , Avhich is always ready Avith a modicum and thafc sufficiently bad , bo it remembered ) of any liquor thafc may bo asked for . Thc counter theory is that a man must , lie frill of one style , just as a bottle must be full of
ono wine to give it really good . Tho rapid and apparently perfectly natural and easy change from ono style to another of totally opposite principles Avill to some minds smack more of the dexterity of tho charlatan than of tho sober earnestness of purpose of the true artist . But AVO arc told that " Ave ought to bo reacl y to moot the wishes of our client—to bow to his choice of
style . " Our client , on tho contrary , if AVO Avere united in purpose , as Ave ought to be , or , in other words , if ours Avere an age of true art , should , have absolutel y no choice as to style . A patient does not tell his physician what medicine to give him—he tells his symptoms , and the doctor prescribes ; so your client should tell you his requirements , the money at his disposal , and so forth , and these you should