"THE ORCHARD/'itARROW : A DRAWtNG-ROOM WINDOW
BY THE GLASS-STAINERS' COMPANY
of other materia! bodies which could not be
brought about in the state of nature. The same
proposition is true of ali the works of men's
hands, from a Hint implement to a cathedral or
chronometer, and it is because it is true that
we call these things artificiai, term them works
of art, or artihce, by way of distinguishing them
from the products of the cosmic process working
outside man, which we cali natural, or works of
nature. The distinction thus drawn between the
works of nature and those of man is universally
recognised, and it is, as I conceive, both useful
and justifiable."
It was the unfortunate non-recognition of this
distinction which ied to the absurdities perpetrated
in the latter part of the eighteenth century : that
forced attempt to copy and imitate nature which
brought about the destruction of so many beautifu!
THE ORCHARD," HARROW : THE DINING-ROOM
ARNOLD MITCHELL, ARCHITECT