Ralph A. Cram
Ralph A. Cram
Ralph Adams Cramwas a prolific and influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the Gothic Revival style. Cram & Ferguson and Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson are partnerships in which he worked. Together with an architect and artist, he is honored on December 16 as a feast day in the Episcopal Church of the United States. Cram was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects...
extended itself maintain primal rapidly western
Republicanism rapidly extended itself to all the governments of western Europe, but it could not maintain itself in its primal integrity.
umpires soul liberty
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
numbers weight modern-life
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.