CHAPTER VIII.

REMARKS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF ARCHITECTURE,AND METALLIC ART IN GENERAL.

Before any correct judgment can be formed of the truevalue and importance of the discovery of tlie System ofArchitecture herein propounded, it will be necessary toconsider, the state in which we are , and have hitherto been,in reference to the practices of Architecture,—and thestate in which, it requires but a small amount of propheticforesight to perceive,—that England may eventually befound, when the practices of a genuine Metallurgic Archi-tecture shall have become associated with the tastes, habits,pursuits, and interests of her people.

It has in various parts of this essay been explained, thatall the Architectures practised throughout the successiveages of the world, are based upon the properties of thesame material, and are therefore incapable of producing anyentirely and integrally dissimilar effects one from the other.

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