Marshall-Schule Associates, Inc. v. Goldman

*1025OPINION OF THE COURT

Jay Stuart Dankberg, J.

While the art of dancing has been called "the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person”, "the art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person” (Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, ch 2).

Architects have been described as being "like poets who transmute nature’s message into song” (Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History of the American People, ch 36).

After all, as American historian William Hickling Prescott keenly observed: "the surest test of the civilization of a people…