Lectures Delivered in America in 1874

" ...]negligence are as hateful to us now, as to the builder of the newest house outside. We too, for more than a generation past, have felt, in common with the rest of England and with all the nations of Northern Europe, that awakened reverence for Mediaeval Art and Mediaeval History, which is-for good and for evil-the special social phenomenon of our times; the natural and, on the whole, useful countercheck to that extreme of revolutionary feeling which issues-as it did in Paris but three years ago-in utter hatred and renunciation of the past, and ...].""