Note 371 — Chapter VII
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“The Anglo-Norman cathedrals were perhaps as much distinguished above other works of man in their own age, as the more splendid edifices of a later period. The science manifested in them is not however very great, and their style, though by no means destitute of lesser beauties, is upon the whole an awkward imitation of Roman architecture, or perhaps more immediately of the Saracenic buildings in Spain.”—Hallam, Middle Ages, vol. iii. p. 431.
As we become philosophical—that is, as the habit grows of accounting for everything—we must of course deny what we cannot account for.