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THE CUNARDER "AQUITANIA," WHICH CARRIES 3,600 PERSONS, COMPARED WITH VARIOUS BUILDINGS
shop and forge have conceived and constructed these formidable affairs that steamships are. We land-lubbers lack the power of appreciation and it would be a good thing if, to teach us to raise our hats to the works of "regeneration," we had to do the miles of walking that the tour of a steamship entails. *** Architects live and move within the narrow limits of academic acquirements and in ignorance of new ways of building, and they are quite willing that their conceptions should remain at doves kissing one another. But our daring and masterly constructors of steamships produce palaces in comparison with which cathedrals are tiny things, and they throw them on to the sea!
Architecture is stifled by custom.
The use of thick walls, which was in earlier days a necessity, has persisted, although thin partitions of glass or brick can well enclose a ground floor with 50 storeys above it.
