Fors clavigera. Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (1871)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York, Wiley · leaf 115
100 FOES CLAVIGERA. ration of mankind; we can surely put something nicerthan that. Little by little, some higher art and imagina-tion may manifest themselves among us; and feeble raysof science may dawn for us. Botany, though too dull todispute the existence of flowers ; and history, though… … E N V^. LETTER YI. Denmark Hill,My Friends, Ut June, 1871.* The main purpose of these letters having beenstated in the last of them, it is needful that I should tellyou why I approach the discussion of it in this so desul-tory way, wi-iting (as it is too true that I must continue towrite,) of…
Conduct of life · Aesthetics · Social problems · Great Britain -- Social conditions 19th century
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