“The Parthenon stands as a reproach to the rest of the world. May not this be because the rest of the world has forgotten, or never knew, the principles which made the Parthenon possible and of which harmony of proportion… was one?”

—  Ernest Flagg

Source: Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. II

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