Word: cathedrale
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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"In the grand cathedral of time the organ, at the touch of providence, does not play joyous melodies continually; but for every peal of merriment at the birth of a soul, there must be a requiem at its exit from earth."
The reason why we have thus to cultivate and reform our taste from the beginning, is that our surroundings - excepting only where man has not interfered with "Dame Nature," to use the correct expression - are the reverse of artistic. The interior of most of our churches suggests as surely an...