"...Blood and Flesh with a voracious Appetite we devour, and glut ourselves with slaughter'd Animals, perhaps endued with Reason equal to ourselves; it may be we cannot affirm, that they possess one so perfect as ours, but that Perfection is acquir'd by Discipline, which the Generality of Brutes want. They have not Seminaries of Literature, nor Cambridge, Oxford, nor Eaton or Westminster, where Arts and Sciences are taught by Rules. — No, Nature is their only School-Mistress, and they learn her Instructions with wonderful Promptness and Sagacity. The Elements founded by the infinite Creator serve them as a Book, to teach them all the Knowledge which is necessary for their Well-being here."
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Robert Morris (writer)
(February 1703 – 12 November 1754) was an English architectural theorist, writer, and surveyor active in the eighteenth century. He contributed significantly to the Palladian revival through influential treatises and pattern books such as Lectures on Architecture (1734–1736) and Rural Architecture (1750), which helped disseminate classical design principles in Britain and colonial America. Though few buildings are securely attributed to him, he participated in architectural and surveying work at
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