The Work of John Ruskin: Its Influence Upon Modern Thought and LifeHarper, 1893 - 200 páginas |
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... truth and justice . We cannot help realizing that centuries are a very long time ; and it must make us shudder in our conscience when we face the possibility that there are many works and men whose merits at the present lie thus ...
... truth and justice . We cannot help realizing that centuries are a very long time ; and it must make us shudder in our conscience when we face the possibility that there are many works and men whose merits at the present lie thus ...
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... the works of Turner after he has read Ruskin with- out having his perceptive sense quicken- ed , so that new beauties and truths are manifest to him that were before hidden . And this faculty of appreciating Turner , which becomes a 19.
... the works of Turner after he has read Ruskin with- out having his perceptive sense quicken- ed , so that new beauties and truths are manifest to him that were before hidden . And this faculty of appreciating Turner , which becomes a 19.
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... truth , and not with the creation of that which is to produce as- thetic pleasure and satisfy man's need for beauty . The confusion of the spirit in which we are to approach the theory of a pursuit with the spirit of the pursuit itself ...
... truth , and not with the creation of that which is to produce as- thetic pleasure and satisfy man's need for beauty . The confusion of the spirit in which we are to approach the theory of a pursuit with the spirit of the pursuit itself ...
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... truth , and nothing but the truth , independent of all other or further considerations . This will in itself be a high moral act , pleasing to God . Now it is in this necessary , fundament- al , and leading attitude of mind that Rus ...
... truth , and nothing but the truth , independent of all other or further considerations . This will in itself be a high moral act , pleasing to God . Now it is in this necessary , fundament- al , and leading attitude of mind that Rus ...
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... truth to nature , which gave a stimulus to his first effort in his art writings , may have had some influence in thus fixing his views . To Ruskin the function of art is to be the intermediator between man and nature , or rather is to ...
... truth to nature , which gave a stimulus to his first effort in his art writings , may have had some influence in thus fixing his views . To Ruskin the function of art is to be the intermediator between man and nature , or rather is to ...
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Página 140 - And the great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, - that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages.
Página 34 - My work is mine, And, heresy or not, if my hand slacked I should rob God — since He is fullest good — Leaving a blank instead of violins. I say, not God Himself can make man's best Without best men to help Him.
Página 78 - And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations ; we look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes, upon all which bears witness to the intention of the Supreme, that we are to receive more from the covering vault than the light and the dew which we share with the weed and the worm...
Página 140 - We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: — divided into mere segments of men — broken into small fragments and crumbs of life...
Página 107 - Utilitarians, who would turn, if they had their way, themselves and their race into vegetables ; men who think, as far as such can be said to think, that the meat is more than the life, and the raiment than the body ; who look to the earth as a stable, and to its fruit as fodder ; vine-dressers and husbandmen, who love the corn they grind, and the grapes they crush, better than the gardens of the angels upon the slopes of Eden...
Página 103 - ... of pale, penetrable, fleecy wreaths in the heaven, to give light upon the earth, which move together, hand in hand, company by company, troop by troop, so measured in their unity of motion, that the whole heaven seems to roll with them, and the earth to reel under them.
Página 45 - Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it : and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Página 140 - It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: - Divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and crumbs of life; so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.
Página 104 - ... of their silent domes flushing that heaven about them and above them, piercing with purer light through its purple lines of lifted cloud, casting a new glory on every wreath as it passes by, until the whole heaven, one scarlet canopy, is interwoven with a roof of waving flame, and tossing, vault beyond vault, as with the drifted wings of many companies of angels : and * Vignette to Campbell's Last Man.
Página 120 - Political economy (the economy of a State, or of citizens) consists simply in the production, preservation, and distribution, at fittest time and place, of useful or pleasurable things. The farmer who cuts his hay at the right time ; the shipwright who drives his bolts well home in sound wood; the builder who lays good bricks in well-tempered mortar ; the housewife who takes care of her furniture in the...