In a nutshell, everything was better than either nature or art can devise unaided and succeeded, as happens only when nature and art are combined, when man’s often mindlessly accumulated labors are reworked by nature’s definitive sculpting, the heavy masses are lightened, the coarsely palpable regularity and the beggarly deficiencies, which betray the nakedness of a poorly concealed plan, are eliminated, and nature can give a wondrous warmth to everything that was created in the chill of measured purity and neatness.
