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edilBces which he designs, great and small, public and private, 

 bear traces of this style, and have resemblances in their ele- 

 ments, construction, and decoration. We know that this may be 

 so: that the spirit of connexion and consistency in some archi- 

 tectural styles is so deep and pervasive, that it breaks out in 

 every part. Thus, in a city so built, it is probable that every 

 part would be recognisable by an architectural eye ; and after 

 any interval of ages, the skilful antiquary would be able to point 

 out the marks of the all-pervading style, and to show common 

 features in the workshop and the palace — a connexion in masonry 

 between the cottage and the court. But if we suppose a spectator 

 thus able to discover resemblance and connexion in the parts of 

 the city, what should we think of his wisdom, if, on the strength 

 of such resemblances, he were to maintain that all the different 

 kinds of building had, in the history of the city, grown out of 

 some original form of mansion by gradual steps ; if he were to 

 hold that the site was first occupied by a few cottages, and that 

 these multiplied, extended, coalesced, retaining in their masonry 

 and structure the traces of their origin, and thus became the great 

 and well-built city ? Still more, what should we think him if he 

 were to teach that it was rejecting a ' system of order' in archae- 

 ology, to believe that the tribunals, and markets, and public 

 walks, and religious edifices, had been originally constructed with 

 a view to their special uses ? It appears to me that such a doctrine 

 in archa!ology would correspond to that ' system of order' in phy- 

 siology, which makes the higher forms of animal life grow out 

 of the lower. We who reject that system are not blind to the 

 traces of connexion in the various parts of his work, which the 

 great Architect has left; but we cannot, on that account, give up 

 the belief that the foundation of this, our city, was a special act. 

 We can the less abandon this belief, inasmuch as we connect with 

 it the belief that the founder of the city has also given us laws for 

 our conduct, and has not left us to guide ourselves by considering 

 how the city grew up of itself, — if, indeed, there be any means of 

 guidance supplied by such a consideration." 



So it appears to this learned person that there is the same 



