RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 
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worshipped, studied, and so well knew how to embody in 
material forms. 
As it is admitted then, that Grecian architecture is intrin- 
sically beautiful in itself, and highly interesting in point of 
associations, it may be asked what are the objections, if any, 
to its common introduction into domestic Rural Architecture. 
To this we answer, that although this form meagerly 
copied, Fig. 38, is actually in more common use than any 
other style, in the United States, it is greatly inferior to the 
Gothic and its modifications in fitness, including under that 
head all the comforts and conveniences of country life. 
[■Fig. 38. Grecian Residence.] 
We have already avowed that we consider fitness, and ex- 
pression of purpose, two leading principles of the first impor- 
tance in Rural Architecture ; and Grecian architecture in its 
pure form, viz : the temple , when applied to the purposes of 
domestic life, makes a sad blow at both these established 
rules. As a public building, the Greek temple form is per- 
fect, both as to fitness, (having one or more large rooms,) and 
expression of purpose showing a high broad portico for 
masses of people, with an ample opening for egress and in- 
gress. Domestic life, on the contrary, requires apartments 
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