A Comment on Notre Dame

𝔅y now,word will have reached all corners of the fire that has erupted at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. As an emblem of the medieval and as an instantiation of medievalism, of how the medieval is used and misused by later times, as a work of human achievement, among many others, the edifice has been of singular importance. The loss of so much in flame is a thing the sadness of which passes the ability to tell truly; the Society joins in mourning for the loss.