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A Joy For Ever

John Ruskin

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ulge themselves unselfishly; if they ask for good art in it, they may be sure in buying gold and silver plate that they are enforcing useful education on young artists. But there is another branch of55 decorative art in which I am sorry to say we cannot, at least under existing circumstances, indulge ourselves, with the hope of doing good to anybody: I mean the great and subtle art of dress.

48. And here I must interrupt the pursuit of our subject for a moment or two, in order to state one of the principles of political economy, which, though it is, I believe, now sufficiently understood and asserted by the leading masters of the science, is not yet, I grieve to say, acted upon by the plurality of those who have the management of riches. Whenever we spend money, we of course set people to work: that is the meaning of spending money; we may, indeed, lose it without employing anybody; but, whenever we spend it, we set a number of people to work, greater or less, . . . Read More

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- Philip - Feb 24, 2024

In this essay, John Ruskin tries to identify the role that art might play in the life of a modern economy and society. Specifically, he deals with how artists might be rewarded for their efforts, how much they might expect and from whom. At one point he even discusses whether artists might indeed be

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- Teri - Jul 06, 2019

Well..he clearly is a big thinker and keeping in mind he was Victorian English I still was disturbed by his patronizing, man centered, missionary zeal ness. That said I appreciate that he valued the arts. I noticed he said he was trying to be clear and did not like being misunderstood. I like that h

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