CHAPTER XVII.
Architecture, Sculpture, Use of Money, Navigation.
What is meant by Architecture?
The art of building or erecting edifices fit for the habitation of man, to defend him from the weather, and for his domestic comfort and convenience; for devotion, trade, and other purposes, and for the use of civilized life in every capacity.
Capacity, state, condition.
Is not this an art of great antiquity?
It is almost as ancient as human society; the changes of the seasons first led men to build themselves huts or cabins, into which they might retire for shelter; in process of time, their manner of building gradually improved, and habitations were constructed of more stately forms and elegant proportions, and greater skill and variety were displayed in their ornaments Hence arose the Five Orders or manners of building.
Of what were the first huts composed?