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all elements of life and growth he new
Once for all, then, when the mo/ style
dern world finds that the eclectic
cism of the present is barren and
fruitless, and that it needs and will
have a style of architecture which,
I must tell you once more, can only
be as part of a change as wide and
deep as that which destroyed Feus
dalism ; when it has come to that
conclusion, the style of architect
ture will have to be historic in the
true sense; it will not be able to
dispense with tradition; it cannot
begin at least with doing some/
thingquitedifferent from anything
that has been done before; yet what/
ever the form of it maybe, the spir^
it of it will be sympathy with the
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Once for all, then, when the mo/ style
dern world finds that the eclectic
cism of the present is barren and
fruitless, and that it needs and will
have a style of architecture which,
I must tell you once more, can only
be as part of a change as wide and
deep as that which destroyed Feus
dalism ; when it has come to that
conclusion, the style of architect
ture will have to be historic in the
true sense; it will not be able to
dispense with tradition; it cannot
begin at least with doing some/
thingquitedifferent from anything
that has been done before; yet what/
ever the form of it maybe, the spir^
it of it will be sympathy with the
e 65