We are the Builders

Being a builder by trade, I thought I would say something on that subject.  But let me say first of all, that we all build and we are all builders, and we all build on the ruins of those that have built before us: and those that come after us build upon the ruins that we have left them. Men are builders and must build because that was the mandate of God given in Paradise Lost. And men always build anew, and think that now their work is perfect, and out of the old ruins rises a new foundation,...