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is not complete ; if it be not a breathing into it the breath of 

 bfe, it is at least an awakening of it to a higher life, and 

 rendering it capable of a more complete and divine expression." 



A fault of modern streets, not before mentioned, was then 

 adverted to — " they too much resemble each other : I would 

 give diversity of character to streets as well as to houses, and 

 for this there are resources in architecture. Public buildings, 

 whilst they give bfe and dignity to the view, play a con- 

 spicuous part in producing the needful variety, and charac- 

 terizing their respective localities ; and fortunately these are 

 greatly increasing in number, both in the metropolis and in 

 the leading provincial towns, where, it must be confessed, 

 despite the neglect of some important principles of beauty, a 

 great deal has of late been done conducive to pictorial effect." 



# * * # * " What I chiefly complain of, is the non- 

 acknowledgment of those principles by attention to which the 

 greatest amount of variety and beauty would be obtained from 

 any given means, and maintain, that the rage for uniformity 

 which has been exhibited in the new streets, had its origin in 

 a mistaken notion of beauty, that whatever other advantages 

 such uniformity may yield, or purposes it may serve, to that 

 sublime quality which gives pleasure to the eye and delight to 

 the mind, it must fail in contributing." 



In concluding, he observed, "there are considerations also 

 of a sanatory nature, which should have an influence on the 

 formation of streets. Respect should be had in laying out a 

 town, and determining the bearing of the streets, to the direc- 

 tion of the prevailing winds : in Liverpool, where the latter 

 are chiefly from the west, the healthful breeze is excluded 

 from a great portion of the length of the town, by a wall 

 of lofty warehouses running north and south, intersected 

 by a very insufficient amount of opening. A good sana- 

 tory provision in the arrangement of a town, would be made 

 by forming large squares at the intersection of the main 

 streets, communicating with each other in the direction of the 



