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one can learn more to avoid than to adopt.

The great aim over here seems to be pretentiousness, confusion and ugliness. The majority of the interiors are dungeon-like and mere tombs for the treasure they overshadow. If the artists whose work is so shockingly treated have any any influence with the devil the souls of the architects are surely being well roasted below. I would like to shovel on some fuel myself. But materialistically, and in many ways artistically, Germany is striding forward wonderfully. Since my last visit, the growth at Essen and the near-by iron and coal districts