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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter. Image
The Neue Elbbrücke Bridge in Hamburg - destroyed not by artillery but by urban planning zealots.

The original design was completed in 1887 and featured two wonderful Gothic gateways, torn down in 1959 to add an additional lane. Image
The quote above is the words of the late Sir Roger Scruton, whose writings on beauty I cannot recommend more highly to anyone who follows this page. Image

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