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TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE

THE EQUITABLE BUILDING, NEW YORK

and knows the effort that is expected from him, he will see that things have changed: and changed for the better.

One more word on the past. Our own epoch, that is to say the last fifty years only, confronts the ten ages that have gone before. During these earlier ages, man ordered his life in conformity with what people call a “natural” system; he took his tasks upon his own shoulders and brought them to a satisfactory conclusion, bearing all the consequences of his own