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the dogmas of any particular school. After all our investi- 
gations, we can merely re-discover the long hidden principles 
of those who have preceded us, and no re-discovery can be 
made, unless we strip the ornamental from the constructive 
parts of our Gothic buildings. As there must have existed 
principles for the production of those "mysteries of a 
human hand," the cathedrals and abbeys of Great Britain, 
it should be our highest aim to discover them, to reduce 
them to their original element (simplicity), and then to 
disseminate a knowledge of them as widely as possible. 
Much of the public taste depends upon architects ; they 
themselves can never be duly appreciated, until they render 
themselves appreciable ; and they can only become so, when 
the mystical cloak is thrown off, and the desire is exhibited 
on their part to diffuse that general love of architecture 
which is so desirable, and which is so richly merited by 
the science itself, — reserving to themselves, as they always 
will do, that more intense love, which none but the initiated 
can ever hope to enjoy. The public will favour architecture, 
and " when it does not suit it to be Gothic, it will be furi- 
ously Grecian." 
LANCET WINDOWS. 
Windows, as the most important features in our Gothic 
structures, will next engage our attention. I shall separate 
them into single, double, and multiple windows ; an arrange- 
ment which I am aware is quite novel, but which I think fully 
warranted, seeing that the arcs of the lights are not portions 
of separate circles, but of a series of intersecting circles. 
The examples of single windows (Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, 
plate 1) clearly show that the spherical equilateral triangle 
was not the form invariably adopted. (Many of the examples 
are omitted in the plate.) The examples 10 and 11, from 
Chichester and Beverley Cathedrals, owe their acuteness to 
the circumstance of their being parts of a composition : 
