Excerpt from Beyond Architecture
Misborn in a time of cosmic upheaval, this volume appears an inconspicuous baby of peace, whose feeble wail, notwithstanding the unreasoning vastness of parental ambitions, is likely to sound more than ever unavailingly amid the shrapnel and groans of a great war. Before abandoning it upon the door-step of that public opinion, which is so largely responsible for its existence, I feel impelled to fasten about its neck something in the nature of a birth certificate, unnecessary and odious as I hold in general such documents to be. I hence make formal avowal that it was conceived in the most respectable possible manner, that is to say, in the lecture-hall, than which, as is well known, nothing is more restrained, more chaste, more completely free from all suspicion, not only of scandal but even of legitimate pleasure.
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