0 0 K. 
esehane hon n eiehe eie o ein e ine 
nan en enehen eane ene a en aneleie n 
nege bale ene e en e n enenei 
sebe oen e ne ehng e on en ene e enie e 
tei ha onen ede on n oe a e a ene le 
aeohe nane ehe eh eaeliehne ene nan ho polehi ne ie. 
really skelled in the art, but are falely called architects. 
For ths reden have hen indued o vie a tenuie f dehiedung and he picihle 
thereoh beleligehegt vil al peopebe epede, d thenin he sch bock hue 
viten lecondtundeon d pole votke in tie daleplin eprinehke and pne. 
portions of private edifices. 
(*) By this passage we learn that the famous Vitru¬ 
naturally prevails, and as naturally produces errors and 
vius, the father of the art, and chief fountain from 
evils as the consequences. 
whence we draw our present knowledge of the theore- 
It appears then it must be very accidental if men of 
tical part of architecture, was in his own time neglected, 
merit are succesful. They cannot seek, they must be 
and little employed. We also learn that then, as in our 
lought; and there are few men who choose to take that 
days, persons unfounded and ignorant in the art af¬ 
trouble, finding it easier to yield to the solicitations of 
sumed the name of Architects, and have obtained more 
thole who ask, than search for those who deserve. The 
employment and encouragement than those who were 
generality indeed are not able to discover the deserving. 
well skilled in their profession. This will probably ever 
But this might be expected from men of rank and 
be the case. For the habits of study by which know¬ 
fortune, from their superior education, and who owe it 
ledge is acquired, and perhaps the turn of mind and 
as a duty to their country to promote its honour and 
diffidence which, as Vitruvius says, generally accom- 
interest. In them therefore the neglect of merit is more 
panies men of sensibility and merit, unfits them for 
censurable, or their being imposed on by the ignorant, 
dealing with the world; they are either afhamed, or dis¬ 
more shameful. 
dain to make use of that craft, political cunning, and 
Men of knowledge however must generally expect to 
servility, which, according to the state of mankind in 
be neglected, and be content with little, and the happy 
some ages, are the necessary steps to success. On the 
tranquillity of their study; or, if they desire wealth and 
contrary, those who have spent their time, not in their 
employment, forsake their studies, and prepare for the 
study, but in the world, habitually acquire that confidence 
doom that awaits them, the troubles that ever attend a 
which, notwithstanding the discovery of their ignorance, great intercourse with the world.