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Excerpt from The Monthly Packet, Vol. 25
I have rambled from the word at the head of this paper into various parts of the subject of Christian architecture, considerably, but I trust excusably. The best excuse for wandering about on a subject is, I believe, to induce one's readers to follow one's devious course, and at all events to bring them back ad rem. Now, we could not well have begun about materials in explaining the word Basilica, though we should have had to do so in building the thing Basilica. That is the difierenoe between analysis or investigation, and synthesis or con struction: one takes the whole thing to pieces to see what it is made of; the other brings the materials or pieces together, simplest first, and makes the whole thing. I have been trying to be analytic or explanatory, and now I have got from the whole thing to the siruplest or earliest part of its construction, ale. To what it was built of.
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