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especially unity-giving structure "the dome" will find 

 its place therein ; and there is no noble feature of the 

 Italian style that may not be freely adopted in the style 

 I venture to advocate. At the same time, the absence 

 of any rigid canons as to symmetry will allow the free 

 development of all such subordinate features or later 

 added additions in each building as original or subsequent 

 needs may require, and thus an element of complexity, 

 surprise, and mystery may be annexed, in a secondary 

 manner, to the predominant and primary unity of the 

 whole. 



It is hardly necessary to add that the modern use of 

 holy images will here meet with facilities fully as great 

 as in Italian architecture, and a different degree of pro- 

 minence, importance, or majesty, can readily be given to 

 each separate image. 



Finally, that requirement as to church architecture 

 which has been here added to those of H. W. B. and his 

 opponent, namely, rationality of construction, will find 

 itself pre-eminently met in the architecture here advo- 

 cated. It will be so that because the adaptation of all 

 the true principles of mediaeval architecture is one of the 

 primary conditions supposed and laid down for its de- 

 velopment, while whatever is noble and striking in post- 

 mediaeval architecture may be freely adopted ; neverthe- 

 less, its various objectionable features will be as studiously 

 eschewed. 



