.....”How could the world lose something like this?”....
The world and the earth ages...it was an 800 year old building...wouldn’t take much for a fire to move very fast in that tinder box.
That’s not what the freeper means. It is how could the world lose one of the most iconic symbols of western civilization - the artistry and scientific knowledge that it embodies. It is more than wood and stone.
Rich Lowry on Twitter is quoting a brilliant description of the cathedral from Victor Hugo’s book.