The rapid progress which has been made both in the study and in the practice of Gothic Architecture … is very gratifying; the two things should always go together: we always find that the architects who are most successful in practice are those who have studied the history of their art most carefully.

What shall I say then of your crackbrain connoisseurs whose ‘models’ are the hideous monstrosities of the sculptors and painters of the dark ages? Verily we may expect the fashion soon to be, if some Professor Willis or Society of Antiquaries would but give the word, that the hieroglyphic men in Egyptian temples or the three Chinese all ‘walking through their groves of trees’ on the willow-pattern plate, will be the ‘models’ of pure taste in the delineation of ‘the human form divine’!