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THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

REVIEW;

OR,

EUROPEAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL.

"In primisque hominis est propria veri inquisitio atque investigatio."

CICERO, DE Orr.

N° XIV.

THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

REVIEW.

ARTICLE I.

An Historical Essay on Architecture. By the late THOMAS HOPE; illustrated from drawings made by him in Italy and Germany. London: Murray, 1835.

It is evident enough that the worship of God is an inward

act of the heart and mind, and that the humblest cotter, with worn-out Bible and unwashed hands, may in love and reverence approach nearer to the Divine Being, than all the pomp of imagination in gay services, full of gold and steaming incense; that the deepest fervour has been felt in barns or in catacombs; and that the widow's mite was worth more than the whole temple. But though this is a truth, it is a one-sided truth, and must be taken with a limitation. Man is not merely a moral being, but also an intellectual one; and if we are delighted to find evidence sometimes that he possesses what some people choose to call a moral sense, we must recollect that he has at least five others, all of which are active and cannot be kept idle. We never were of that great sect who would cut us asunder, insect-like, into two parts, an illpaired couple; separating the practical reason by a fixed gulph from a strange illusory understanding; and seeing nothing out of ourselves but base matter, to be used only for the conveniences of that machine which carries on its top the self-sufficient and somewhat pragmatical ball of man's head. But to separate is easy; to harmonise, the slow task of

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