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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