Excerpt from An Inquiry Into Some of the Conditions at Present Affecting "the Study of Architecture" In Our Schools I suppose there is no man who, permitted to address, for the first time, the Institute of British Architects, would not feel himself abashed and restrained, doubtful of his claim to be heard by them, even if he attempted only to describe what had come under his personal observation, much more if on the occasion he thought it would be expected of him to touch upon any of the general principles of the art of archi tecture before its principal English masters. But if any more than another should feel thus abashed, it is certainly one who has first to ask their pardon for the petu lance of boyish expressions of partial thought; for ungrace ful advocacy of principles which needed no support from him, and discourteous blame of work of which he had never felt the difficulty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.