Note 9 — Chapter I · What Is Gothic Architecture?[3]
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“There are few things more interesting, more instructive, or more beautiful in human history than the spectacle of those early cowled builders struggling against all difficulties and disadvantages, and laying the foundations of a new art which was, in the stronger hands of their lay successors, to culminate in the marvels of Chartres and Amiens.”—Charles Herbert Moore, Development and Character of Gothic Architecture (New York, Macmillan, 1904).