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PREFACE
spirit of loyalty and affection for the Church which animated the Christian artists of the ages of faith. “We must work as Catholics, if we would succeed, even as architects—we must work as for God and his Church, and we shall soon outstrip the bonds of imitation and archæology, and, starting from the principles of the mighty workers of old, may trust in time to surpass even the glorious creations they have left us.”
Leinster Road, Rathmines,
Nov., 1851.
