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Quote #4
Not by usura St Trophime
Not by usura Saint Hilaire (35-36)
After he's listed the great artists who couldn't exist in a world with usura, Pound then claims that beautiful buildings like St Trophime and Saint Hilaire never would have been built in the modern age, either. If you take a look at modern buildings, they're usually built out of cheap materials instead of pure stone, and they aren't covered with a ton of fancy statues. But stuff that's beautiful doesn't always care about how much things cost. Just take a look at this modern church, which Pound would no doubt be proud to see. Whoever got this thing built definitely wasn't concerned about how much it cost.