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the source which brought it into being. Seeing the Shaker meeting-house at new Lebanon recently, revealed vividly the difference in emotional response to the thing which is of one's lineage and that which is not.

Its balance of vast space with that of more intimate proportions, achieved by the greatest economy of means and an absence of ornament, speaking clearly of their assurance in it's essential structural integrity, is sufficient in itself to make one rejoice in having derived from the soil which brought it into being. [[note]] Fine but will stand more explicit description. [[/note]]

The Shakers recognized no justifiable difference to be made in quality of workmanship, no 

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