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Lecture IIL I do not know a better way of getting at these Some Hints reasons than for each of us to suppose himself to on Patternx be in the room in which hewill havetopassa good Designing part of his life, the said room being quite bare of ornament, to be there thathemay consider what he can do tomakethebarewallspleasant helpful to him; I say the walls, because, after all, thewidest use of patternxdesigning is the clothing of the walls of a room, hall, church, or what building you will Doubtless there will be some, in these days at least, who will say, Tis most helpful to me to let the bare walls alone So also there would be some who,when asked with what manner of books they will furnish their room, would answer, With none But I think you will agree with me in thinking that both these sets of people would be in an unhealthy state of mind, and probably of body also; in which case we need not trouble ourselves about their whims, since it is with healthy sane people only that art has dealings A gain, a healthy sane person being asked with what kind of art he would clothe his walls, might well answer, With the best art and so end the question Yet, out on it! so complex is human life, tnat even this seemingly most reasonable answer may turn out to be little better than an evasion.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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