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published in Fors Clavigera, vol. 8 (Sept. 29, 1880)"Conventional Art" The Two Paths (1859)Fors Claveriga (1877)Fors Claveriga (1871)Fors Claveriga (1876)

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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

John Ruskin

John Ruskin (1819–1900), British art critic, author. "The Lamp of Memory," sect. 2, The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849).

Referring to architecture.

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