Art Out-of-Doors 
times fall into rudeness. This shows, of 
course, that we have not fully understood 
the meaning of fitness as an architectural 
term ; we have remembered that a structure 
should harmonize with its surroundings, but 
have forgotten that it should also harmonize 
with the spirit of cultivated men and women 
who are the heirs of all the ages, living in a 
state of high civilization, and inheriting the 
practical processes as well as the tastes of 
countless generations of skilful builders. 
And thus, moreover, we have often missed 
even true simplicity; for civilized, intelli- 
gent men can produce rude-looking structures 
only by an effort so deliberate and self-con- 
scious that it lays them open to the charge 
of affectation. 
No one need object to an Adirondack 
camp, a fishing-lodge, or a hill-side studio, 
if it is rough and rude. It is designed as 
a shelter for a semi-civilized sort of exist- 
ence, and may be as appropriate to the 
temporary needs of its inhabitants as to 
the wild scenes amid which it stands. But 
when costly buildings in civilized neighbor- 
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