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35 and re-building, the architect’s influence must be cultural as well as technical. We may also inquire what kind of architecture we should have without new conceptions of art, both in colour and outline. Nor must we, for a single instant, forget literature, which is now so contemptuously ignored or commercialised. Yet—but let us take heart of graceMilton’s sonnets are remembered, while Sir Thomas Gresham is forgotten. Our love of beauty survives.

Thus, we have the picture of the House of Industry responsible for wealth production, and the House of Culture responsible for our education, our health, our communal amenities, the nurse of our arts and literature, our ambassador to the World of Culture.

What shall be the relation of these two Estates of the Realm to the House of Commons, the citadel of citizenship?