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Learning to See Didn't our visionaries say that change could happen if beauty approved and went on to erect edifices to inspire us, pride ourselves in— uplifts in stone reminding us of lands left behind, faces Roman, Gothic, Florentine, Doric, that have stood looking at us from churches, lodging places, banks and Court House— and, let it be said, from that plain structure, its base elevated on lawns where North Street joins Main, a shrine of sorts not a business place, the lines of which at every passing taught our untrained eyes lessons in harmony, balance and order, schooling us in classic forms, a work of art that ennobled us, taught us pride of self and city simply by being there to see and speaking to us silently. What was it our eyes were seeing? Wasn't it what others saw revealed in a medieval cathedral maybe or an Acropolis on a hill? Next Home |
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