Excerpt from The Builder, Vol. 47: An Illustrated Weekly Magazine for the Architect, Engineer, Archaeologist, Constructor, Sanitary Reformer, and Art-Lover; July to December, 1884
Every one must be master in his own house, whether an administration, a commune, or a constituted society, and I cannot imagine a Minister or a President of the Republic con senting to intervene between competitors and organisers in h competition.
It is by persuasion and appeal to the public that one must work, by interesting then; in our cause and showing them that it is at the same time their own and that it is by advising them as well as in defending ourselves that we hope to obtain better results.
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