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discipline, of harmony, of a beauty that is calm, vital and strong.
A seriously-minded architect, looking at it as an architect (i.e. a creator of organisms), will find in a steamship his freedom from an age-long but contemptible enslavement to the past.
He will prefer respect for the forces of nature to a lazy respect for tradition; to the narrowness of commonplace conceptions he will prefer the majesty of solutions which spring from a problem that has been clearly stated—solutions needed by this age of mighty effort which has taken so gigantic a step forward.
The house of the earth-man is the expression of a circumscribed world. The steamship is the first stage in the realization of a world organized according to the new Spirit.
