Excerpt from The House: Its Plan, Decoration, and Care It may be well to consider what is meant by the term the evolution of the house. One hears much in these days about evolution in plans, plants, ani mals. For present purposes the following definition seems best suited: Evolution is a process in which, by a series of continuous progressive changes, a com plex arrangement, agency, or organism is developed from rude or simple beginnings as the evolution of civilization from savagery; the evolution of a-chicken from an egg. The evolution Of the house, then, means that progressive series of changes by which the modern house has developed or evolved from an earlier and simpler form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.