The Chinese architect seems to have been obsessed and mesmerized, by the very origin of the type of building to which custom bound, him, Just as the African native has never got beyond the circular mud hut and thatch so the Chinese has remained fascinated and absorbed in the marquee type building which originated with the nomad Khans who enslaved him. His great ceremonial halls, are windowless, dim lit great high latticed doors, most flimsy shields against a bitter winter, the makeshift of the felt shod fur clad oriental who sheds his garments only at the change of seasons. In summer the lattices are open or else removed and the stark groves of pillars lic exposed, tent poles again to all intents and Purposes. The very saz of tent material is imitated in the upturned eaves, in the curve of the ridge, even the wind stirred tremors of, 'a tent in the pantiling.
There was apparently no appreciation of the fact that some materials are beets to bear tent Stress, others, compressive.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.