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Excerpt from Rules and Regulation, the Utica Cemetery Association: A Copy of the Law, Authorising the Formation of Rural Cemetery Association
Regarded as an affair of taste, the subject is one of some deli cacy, and we venture upon it with becoming deference. We do not forget the right of each individual to have his own way in such matters, nor those maxims of universal currency, which rest upon the assumption, that in all this wide province there are no fundamental principles. We set up no invariable standard, nor would we, if in our power, enforce uniformity, - variety being essential to pleasing effect. But we have notwithstanding, an un alterable conviction that all considerations of this sort rest upon certain laws of fitness and propriety which cannot be violated without a shock to every mind of just perceptions and powers rightly cultivated. If it be a question of form only, the lines of beauty and deformity are not so easily decided. Yet even here there is less of latitude than is often supposed. There is a voice - the generally harmonious voice of cultivated taste. It has the sanction of numbers and of ages, and may not lightly be dis regarded.
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