Whether he be called Brahmin, magus, or pope, in the Hindu, Egyptian, or Romanesque masonry it is always the priest, nothing but the priest, of whom one is aware. It is not the same with popular forms of architecture. They are richer and less sacred. In Phoenician architecture one is aware of the merchant, in Greek of the republican, in Gothic of the citizen.
If this is true of the Gothic, why did the revolutionaries of 1789 not feel it? Why did they attack Notre Dame in their declarations and leave it to rot?
