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Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology World history
Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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is architecture. It stands, as we haveseen, in the triple category of necessities,the other two being food and clothing;but inasmuch as man is more than ananimal, his shelter is more than a house.From the mere physical fact of shelter,the abode of the human race rises rap-idly into higher forms; and elegance isadded to necessary structure. THE INDICANS.—ARCHITECTURE. 727 The Hindus have been immemoriallynoted for the extreme elaboration and ex-travagant taste exhibited in their build- India. The style in general is Oriental.Flat roofs are the prevailing form, withprojecting balconies and verandas. The
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INDI.4N ARCHITECTURE—FLAT-ROOF STR ings; and the same is true of their plasticarts. The traveler must needs feel him-self in the western twilight of the Orientas he begins to scan the architecture of by H. Clergc name of the latter is from the Hinduvocabulary, and both the fact and theword have been carried into all Westernnations. In connection with the Hindu 728 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. residence is nearly always found a gar-den, and in this is displayed the same kindof elaborate taste whichwe iind in the permanentarchitecture of the coun-The arbor, the trellis, the curious Extreme elabo-ration of theHindu architec-ture.

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  • booksubject:Ethnology
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