Stones  (pp. 41­2):

          Victor Hugo said in Notre Dame that the printing-
     press destroyed architecture, which had hitherto been the 
     stone record of mankind. The real misdemeanor of the 
     printing-press, however, was not that it took literary 
     values away from architecture, but that it caused 
     architecture to derive its value from literature. With the 
     Renaissance the great modern distinction between the 
     literate and the illiterate extends even to building; the 
     master mason who knew his stone and his workmen and 
     his tools and the tradition of his art gave way to the 
     architect who knew his Palladio and his Vignola and his 
     Vitruvius. Architecture, instead of striving to leave the 
     imprint of a happy spirit on the superficies of a building, 
     became a mere matter of grammatical accuracy and