Every house is builded by some man, but He that built all things is God.
Hebrews iii. 4.
In architectural art the central idea embraces three important factors, unity, fitness of parts to each other, and fitness of parts to the whole. All that God or man has given form to, once existed in idea only. Admitting this does not in the least detract from the value of the work. Is it not that which precedes form, even the ideal, the real and eternal? Enduring substances evade the prying eye of sense.
