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But this Gothic--this Cathedral, for example, which it seems we must help to preserve--is fashioned only to kick itself down." "It aspires." "Precisely, my lord; that is the mischief.

When the Greek temple was content to repose upon natural law--when the Greek builder said, 'I will build for my gods greatly yet lowlily, measuring my effort to those powers of man which at their fullest I know to be moderate, making my work harmonious with what little it is permitted to me to know'-- in jumps the rash Christian, saying with the men of Babel, _Go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven_; or, in other words, 'Let us soar above the law of earth and take the Kingdom of Heaven by storm.'.

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