Eighteenth-century British architectural theory, while always taking heed of artistic developments in France, at the same takes a very different tack. To understand why and how this divergence of ideas came about, it is important to understand the different philosophical basis of Anglo-Saxon thought as well as unique circumstances affecting it, such as its novel ideas regarding garden design.
After the foregoing introductory remarks it is now time to pass on to the
study of our subject itself. But the introduction, where we still are, can in this
respect do no more than sketch for our apprehension a conspectus of the
entire course of our subsequent scientific studies.
