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Church, of good size, might have so many as seven altars.

It is remarkable that all the churches of the early and middle ages—though perhaps there are not two Churches to be found exactly alike—follow some one or other of these types. I have not any doubt but that, in the beginning of ecclesiastical art, propriety and convenience were alone consulted, and that these considerations produced the