John Ruskin, Social ReformerD. Estes, 1898 - 336 стор. This 1898 volume provides a brief biography of the art critic and social theorist, with an extensive look at his influential views on social reform. |
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... measures and movements of progress , would be to prefer a foolish claim . But it may be justly said that he has done more than any other Englishman to compel people to realise the nature of the social problem in its wider related issues ...
... measures and movements of progress , would be to prefer a foolish claim . But it may be justly said that he has done more than any other Englishman to compel people to realise the nature of the social problem in its wider related issues ...
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... measure the qualities of grit and foresight , the commercial and intellectual acquisitiveness which have brought so many of the North Britons to the front in the struggle of life . The two great departments of business and home - life ...
... measure the qualities of grit and foresight , the commercial and intellectual acquisitiveness which have brought so many of the North Britons to the front in the struggle of life . The two great departments of business and home - life ...
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... measure words . A man who feels and speaks strongly is not necessarily a fanatic . The unerring test of a fanatic is that he be- comes the slave of a fixed idea , the owner of a panacea which is applied indiscriminately to cure all ...
... measure words . A man who feels and speaks strongly is not necessarily a fanatic . The unerring test of a fanatic is that he be- comes the slave of a fixed idea , the owner of a panacea which is applied indiscriminately to cure all ...
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... measured by life not by money . § 13. True utility , not passing desires , the standard of wealth . § 14. Organic conception of society essential to " Political Economy . § 15. Production of " souls of a good quality " the economic goal ...
... measured by life not by money . § 13. True utility , not passing desires , the standard of wealth . § 14. Organic conception of society essential to " Political Economy . § 15. Production of " souls of a good quality " the economic goal ...
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... question , " What right have you to take the word ' wealth , ' which originally meant well - being , ' and degrade and narrow it by con- fining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by CURRENT POLITICAL ECONOMY . 75.
... question , " What right have you to take the word ' wealth , ' which originally meant well - being , ' and degrade and narrow it by con- fining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by CURRENT POLITICAL ECONOMY . 75.
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Сторінка 23 - When one would aim an arrow fair, But send it slackly from the string ; And one would pierce an outer ring, And one an inner, here and there ; And last the master-bowman, he Would cleave the mark.
Сторінка 255 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ! This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. 'Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Сторінка 86 - There is no wealth but life — -life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings...
Сторінка 264 - Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
Сторінка 282 - The man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention ; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary.
Сторінка 33 - MODERN PAINTERS : their superiority in the Art of Landscape Painting to all the Ancient Masters proved by examples of the true, the beautiful, and the intellectual, from the Works of Modern Artists, especially from those of JMW Turner, Esq., RA By a Graduate of Oxford.
Сторінка 114 - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
Сторінка 282 - And, in like manner, what the woman is to be within her gates, as the centre of order, the balm of distress, and the mirror of beauty ; that she is also to be without her gates, where order is more difficult distress more imminent, loveliness more rare.
Сторінка 105 - Where the intrinsic value and acceptant capacity come together there is Effectual value, or wealth ; where there is either no intrinsic value, or no acceptant capacity, there is no effectual value ; that is to say, no wealth.
Сторінка 300 - God; and when they are not, or seem in any wise to need change, I will oppose them loyally and deliberately, not with malicious, concealed, or disorderly violence.