There will God reward them with the Crown of Peace to all
eternity.
[166] Baptistery of Pisa, circular, of marble, with dome two
hundred feet high, embellished with numerous columns, is a notable
work of the twelfth century. The pulpit is a masterpiece of Nicola
Pisano. Casa d'Oro at Venice is noted for its elegance. It was
built in the fourteenth century. The Cathedral of Lisieux dates
chiefly from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and contains
many works of art. The Palais de Justice is of the fifteenth
century. It was built for the Parliament of the Province.
[167] This cathedral, destroyed in 1799, was one of the most
beautiful in all Normandy.
[168] Dante.
THE LAMP OF OBEDIENCE
It has been my endeavour to show in the preceding pages how every form
of noble architecture is in some sort the embodiment of the Polity,
Life, History, and Religious Faith of nations. Once or twice in doing
this, I have named a principle to which I would now assign a definite
place among those which direct that embodiment; the last place, not
only as that to which its own humility would incline, but rather as
belonging to it in the aspect of the crowning grace of all the rest;
that principle, I mean, to which Polity owes its stability, Life its
happiness, Faith its acceptance, Creation its continuance,--Obedience.
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