Excerpt from The Substance of Gothic: Six Lectures on the Development of Architecture From Charlemagne to Henry VIII; Given at the Lowell Institute, Boston in November and December, 1916
In philosophical terminology every existing thing is composed of substance and accidents, the first being its essential quality, the second its visible form. Accidents may change while the substance remains immutable, and the substance may change though the accidents remain as before. Between the cradle and the grave man goes through a constant process of change, but that which makes each a definite individual, marked off from all others of his race in unique individuality, remains a fixed and immutable ego, however much it may develop and expand, or degenerate and fail. Death itself, which destroys the accidents of earthly housing, cannot touch the immortal soul or diminish its integrity, though the Visible manifestation may differ as much from that of its earthly habitation as the moth differs from the chrysalis or the antecedent worm.
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