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This consideration gives more than a passing interest to this volume, and invests it with the character of a national undertaking.iv introduction.

If, however, this work had no other claim upon the attention of the present age, it would in all probability want that public support which we are willing to believe it will receive. Just in proportion to the intellectual strength and cultivation of the human mind, is the desire to perpetuate the remembrance of its existence. The same is true of nations; but although there is diffused through society a desire to establish a character to be honoured and admired by posterity, and not less to leave a record which shall make an irresistible appeal and secure a posthumous fame; it is rather sought in the bold and striking objects of architectural design executed in enduring masonry, as it is generally supposed to be, than in designs perpetuated by the art of the engraver. The past history of mankind, however, plainly declares, that the one mode is utterly insufficient for the purpose, and that few and frail as were the records of the pen, they have outlived the numerous efforts to obtain immortality by works executed in apparently more durable materials.

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