Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Ruskin says: It is well to have not only what men have thought and felt, but what their hands have handled and their strength wrought all the days of their life. It is also well to have what sympathetic authors have written about these mas sive and wonderful creations of stone which have looked down upon and outlived so many genera tions of mankind.