Stonehenge, neither for disposition or ornament has anything admirable; but those huge rude masses, set on end and piled each on the other turn the mind on the immense force necessary for such a work. Nay, the rudeness of the work increases this cause of grandeur, as it excludes the idea of art and contrivance; for dexterity produces another sort of effect, which is different enough from this.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Stonehenge, neither for disposition or ornament has anything admirable; but those huge rude masses, set on end and piled each on the other turn the mind on the immense force necessary for such a work. Nay, the rudeness of the work increases this cause of grandeur, as it excludes the idea of art and contrivance; for dexterity produces another sort of effect, which is different enough from this." in the context of "Edmund Burke, in Liane Lefaivre, Alexander Tzoni The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810, Routledge, 31-Jul-2004, p. 355" to mean that wisdom is timeless.