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Ruskin far more completely and acutely. But while Mazzini concluded that the needed reform was that the people should control their econo- mic as well as their political government, and must fit themselves for doing so, Mr. Ruskin always denied the possibility of popular government either in politics or industry. And yet he saw even more clearly than Mazzini the general law of this economic injustice operative through history.
" The people have begun to suspect that one par- ticular form of the...ir past misgovernment has been that their masters have set them to do all the work and have themselves taken all the wages. In a word, that what 192 JOHN RUSKIN was called governing them meant only wearing fine clothes and living on good fare at their expense. And, I am sorry to say, the people are quite right in this opinion too. If you inquire into the vital fact of the matter, this you will find to be the constant structure of European society for the thousand years of the feudal system ; it was divided into peasants who lived by digging, priests who lived by begging, and knights who lived by pillaging ; and as the luminous public mind becomes fully cognisant of these facts, it will assuredly not suffer things to be altogether arranged that way any more." ^ When he thus closely realises the terrible defects of aristocracy in actual history, and particularly in con- templating the failure of the English upper classes to fulfil their duties of right government, Mr.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Ruskin far more completely and acutely. But while Mazzini concluded that the needed reform was that the people should control their econo- mic as well as their political government, and must fit themselves for doing so, Mr. Ruskin always denied the possibility of popular government either in politics or industry. And yet he saw even more clearly than Mazzini the general law of this economic injustice operative through history.
" The people have begun to suspect that one par- ticular form of the...ir past misgovernment has been that their masters have set them to do all the work and have themselves taken all the wages. In a word, that what 192 JOHN RUSKIN was called governing them meant only wearing fine clothes and living on good fare at their expense. And, I am sorry to say, the people are quite right in this opinion too. If you inquire into the vital fact of the matter, this you will find to be the constant structure of European society for the thousand years of the feudal system ; it was divided into peasants who lived by digging, priests who lived by begging, and knights who lived by pillaging ; and as the luminous public mind becomes fully cognisant of these facts, it will assuredly not suffer things to be altogether arranged that way any more." ^ When he thus closely realises the terrible defects of aristocracy in actual history, and particularly in con- templating the failure of the English upper classes to fulfil their duties of right government, Mr.
What to read after John Ruskin, Social Reformer?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by J a John Atkinson Hobson to read onlineMoreLess
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