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superadd to it beauty and proportion and to breathe into 
it the very breath of life.* 
The one profession is, so to speak, all solid prose ; the 
other is poetry, sublime, or as that celebrated woman 
MADAM de Stael poetically but strangely emphazised it, 
11 Frozen Music" \ and hence it abruptly follows, that 
he who may be able to construe!; a bridge-pier or build a 
tunnel or sink a shaft may not be able to design a 
moulded parapet or an iron railing; that he who can build 
a lofty chimney may not be able to give feature to the 
base character to the cornice, or beauty of curve to its 
mouldings. 
As long then as engineering and architecture are 
not kept at arm's distance, even when they are shaking 
hands under the same roof, there will be little 
good architecture, though possibly a fair amount of 
honest engineering. If however the architect: is will- 
ing to shake hands with the engineer, he is, on the 
other side, much more disposed to shake fists at the 
builder, — for in him he has often an arch-enemy or at any 
rate is one when the builder, as a pseudo architect, comes 
poaching on his territory. The engineer may prevent 
artistic life, but the builder often destroys it. The one 
may be a trespasser, and should be prosecuted even by the 
law, the other in as much as he destroys life, is a murderer, 
and deserves the common punishment ! Let the builder 
keep to his trade, to his bricks, timber and tackle, but 
let him not think that because by looking into a few 
flat books, bought at some auction sale, wherein he may 
have possibly learnt to make a distinction between a 
* And in all metal buildings this is particularly to be observed and 
insisted upon. 
