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Our Architectural Chapter.
which they possessed by having the most perfect living models to study- from . And yet , he observed , that few of their statues would bear the severe test of geometrical annotation . Mr . Smith reminded the meeting of what Sir Joshua Reynolds had so wisely said in his first " Discourses upon Painting , " with reference to this subject , namely- — " Nothing is a greater mistake than for an
artist to suppose that rules are the fetters of genius ; they are fetters only to the man of no genius . " Mr . Digby Wyatt remarked upon the singularity of the circumstance that to a painter sculptors and architects were indebted for what was now recognized as the sound canon of proportion . If Leonardo da Yinci had not studied and translated Yitruvius as an earnest and truthful scholar only could , the
wrid might never have known how much it owed to the great master of Greek architecture . Mr . Parris confessed hipaself unable to give his adhesion to the theory , ¦ that the ancient Greeks an d Bomans were physically a finer race than En ^ ishmen . Take , for instance , picked men from Lancashire and Cheshire , and he believed they would be to of
found quite equ ^ d the finest models the antique . Mr . Baker expressed Himself pleased that architects were at length beginning to see the necessity of acting in harmony with sculptors ^ and that the canon of geometrical proportion was recognized by both professions as a standard of excellence in the material as well as the human
edifice . The next lecture ( to be delivered on the 13 th inst . ) will be by Mr . John Bell , on a kindred subject—the geometrical treatment of sculpture .
An Old Mason's Advice To His Nephew
AN CLP MASON ' S ADYICE TO HIS NEPHEW
My ueab Timothy , —After settling some pressing business of my own , which vexes me not a little , I will pay you my promised visit that we may have some talk about the Masonic difficulties of which you complain ; and it may be that they will not prove altogether insuperable , for what says the Persian poet— " The weeds that deform
Letter I
the sluggard's garden may be easily removed by the hand of industry . " But as my own perplexities may occupy some weeks , perhaps months , before they are finally settled , and your demands are urgent , I will devote an hour to a consideration of the causes which produce your embarrassment , although it is now many years since I have been within the four walls of a Lodge ; but I cannot refrain from repeating what I have often told you before , that you are more like a swallow that skims over the surface to supply its present necessities , than the bee which industriously searches the calyx of every beauteous flower , and brings thence sweetness which is carefully laid
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Our Architectural Chapter.
which they possessed by having the most perfect living models to study- from . And yet , he observed , that few of their statues would bear the severe test of geometrical annotation . Mr . Smith reminded the meeting of what Sir Joshua Reynolds had so wisely said in his first " Discourses upon Painting , " with reference to this subject , namely- — " Nothing is a greater mistake than for an
artist to suppose that rules are the fetters of genius ; they are fetters only to the man of no genius . " Mr . Digby Wyatt remarked upon the singularity of the circumstance that to a painter sculptors and architects were indebted for what was now recognized as the sound canon of proportion . If Leonardo da Yinci had not studied and translated Yitruvius as an earnest and truthful scholar only could , the
wrid might never have known how much it owed to the great master of Greek architecture . Mr . Parris confessed hipaself unable to give his adhesion to the theory , ¦ that the ancient Greeks an d Bomans were physically a finer race than En ^ ishmen . Take , for instance , picked men from Lancashire and Cheshire , and he believed they would be to of
found quite equ ^ d the finest models the antique . Mr . Baker expressed Himself pleased that architects were at length beginning to see the necessity of acting in harmony with sculptors ^ and that the canon of geometrical proportion was recognized by both professions as a standard of excellence in the material as well as the human
edifice . The next lecture ( to be delivered on the 13 th inst . ) will be by Mr . John Bell , on a kindred subject—the geometrical treatment of sculpture .
An Old Mason's Advice To His Nephew
AN CLP MASON ' S ADYICE TO HIS NEPHEW
My ueab Timothy , —After settling some pressing business of my own , which vexes me not a little , I will pay you my promised visit that we may have some talk about the Masonic difficulties of which you complain ; and it may be that they will not prove altogether insuperable , for what says the Persian poet— " The weeds that deform
Letter I
the sluggard's garden may be easily removed by the hand of industry . " But as my own perplexities may occupy some weeks , perhaps months , before they are finally settled , and your demands are urgent , I will devote an hour to a consideration of the causes which produce your embarrassment , although it is now many years since I have been within the four walls of a Lodge ; but I cannot refrain from repeating what I have often told you before , that you are more like a swallow that skims over the surface to supply its present necessities , than the bee which industriously searches the calyx of every beauteous flower , and brings thence sweetness which is carefully laid