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R USKIU says, “We may live without architecture, and worship with¬ 
out her, but we cannot remember without her.” “So, then,” says 
he, also, “when we build, let us think that we build (public 
edifices) forever. Let it not be for the present delight, nor for the pres¬ 
ent use alone, let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and 
let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those 
stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that 
men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substances of them, 
‘See! this our fathers did for us/ " 
And, when looking sometimes in contemplation at the astounding 
wonders of this great Universe surrounding us, let us think of what the 
Spanish philosopher Balmes says, that the Universe was not planned after 
our experience, but our experience is obtained from the Universe , because 
nature is the art of God Who is this ivorld’s great Architect whose thought 
it is. 
“The spacious firmament on high, 
With all the blue, ethereal sky, 
And spangled heavens, a shining frame, 
Their great Original proclaim.” 
— Addison. 
