You will know then how to build, well
enough; you will build with stone well, but with flesh better; temples
not made with hands,[229] but riveted of hearts; and that kind of
marble, crimson-veined, is indeed eternal.
[202] Delivered in the Town Hall, Bradford, April 21, 1864.
[203] _Matthew_ v, 6.
[204] Scott's _Lay of the Last Minstrel_, canto 1, stanza 4.
[205] The reference was to the reluctance of this country to take
arms in defence of Denmark against Prussia and Austria. [Cook and
Wedderburn.]
[206] See, e.g., pp. 167 ff. and 270 ff.
[207] Inigo Jones [1573-1652] and Sir Christopher Wren [1632-1723]
were the best known architects of their respective generations.
[208] _Genesis_ xxviii, 17.
[209] _Matthew_ xxiv, 27.
[210] _Matthew_ vi, 6.
[211] And all other arts, for the most part; even of incredulous
and secularly-minded commonalties. [Ruskin.]
[212] 1 _Corinthians_ i, 23.
[213] For further interpretation of Greek mythology see Ruskin's
_Queen of the Air_.
[214] It is an error to suppose that the Greek worship, or seeking,
was chiefly of Beauty. It was essentially of Rightness and
Strength, founded on Forethought: the principal character of Greek
art is not beauty, but design: and the Dorian Apollo-worship and
Athenian Virgin-worship are both expressions of adoration of divine
wisdom and purity.
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