"The true architectural art, that art toward which I would lead you, rests, not upon scholarship but upon human powers; and, therefore, it is to be tested, not by the fruits of scholarship, but by the touch-stone of humanity."
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Louis Sullivan, Kindergarten Chats (1918) Ch. 10 : A Roman Temple
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