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Re: The La Selva Beach Bridge -- Great to make new bridge look like old bridge!
Author: WebDigger
Date: 03-02-2014 - 14:03

Margaret (SP fan) Wrote:
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> > I found these wise words by H.G.Wells that speak
> to this very
> subject of aesthetics:
>
> "There is nothing in machinery,
> there is nothing in embankments
> and railways and iron bridges and
> engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly..
> Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."
>
> (I could not find the essay or book this quite was
> taken from.)
>
> Margaret

According to that trusted source Wikipedia, it's from A Modern Utopia, Ch. 3, sect. 8

Other references, via Google.

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