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tice and example, they may have substituted 

 other narrow prejudices and absurdities, in 

 the room of those which they proscribed. 

 It must be owned at the same time, that 

 like other reformers, he and his followers 

 demolished without distinction, the costly 

 and magnificent decorations of past times, 

 and all that had long been held in venera- 

 tion : and among them many things, which 

 etill deserved to have been respected and 

 adopted. Such, however is the zeal and 

 enthusiasm with which at the early period 

 of their success, novelties of every kind are 

 received, that the fascination becomes ge- 

 neral; and the few who may then see 

 their defects, hardly dare to attack openly, 

 what a multitude is in arms to defend. It 

 is reserved for those, who are further re- 

 moved from that moment of sudden change, 

 and strong prejudice, to examine the 

 merits and defects of both styles. But how 

 are they to be examined ? by those general 

 and unchanging principles, which best 

 enable us to form our judgment of the 

 effect of all visible objects, but which, for 



