Sesame And Lilies: Two Lectures Delivered At Manchester in 1864
Sesame And Lilies: Two Lectures Delivered At Manchester in 1864
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A great nation, for instance, does not spend its entire national wits for a couple of months in weighing evidence of a single ruffian's having done a single murder ; and for a couple of years, see its own children murder each other by their thousands or tens of thousands a day, consider- 42 SESAME AND LILIES.
ing only what the effect is likely to be on the price of cotton, and caring nowise to determine which side of battle is in the wrong. Neither does a great nation send its poor little boys ...to jail for stealing six walnuts; and allow its bankrupts to steal their hundreds of thousands with a bow, and its bankers, rich with poor men's savings, to close their doors " under circumstances over which they have no control," with a " by your leave ; " and large landed estates to be bought by men who have made their money by going with armed steamers up and down the China Seas, selling opium at the cannon's mouth, and altering, for the benefit of the foreign nation, the com- mon highwayman's demand of "your money or your life," into that of " your money and your life." Neither does a great nation allow the lives of its innocent poor to be parched out of them by fog fever, and rotted out of them by dunghill plague, for the sake of sixpence a life extra per week to its landlords ;* and then debate, with drivelling * See the evidence in the Medical officer's report to the Privy Council, just published.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A great nation, for instance, does not spend its entire national wits for a couple of months in weighing evidence of a single ruffian's having done a single murder ; and for a couple of years, see its own children murder each other by their thousands or tens of thousands a day, consider- 42 SESAME AND LILIES.
ing only what the effect is likely to be on the price of cotton, and caring nowise to determine which side of battle is in the wrong. Neither does a great nation send its poor little boys ...to jail for stealing six walnuts; and allow its bankrupts to steal their hundreds of thousands with a bow, and its bankers, rich with poor men's savings, to close their doors " under circumstances over which they have no control," with a " by your leave ; " and large landed estates to be bought by men who have made their money by going with armed steamers up and down the China Seas, selling opium at the cannon's mouth, and altering, for the benefit of the foreign nation, the com- mon highwayman's demand of "your money or your life," into that of " your money and your life." Neither does a great nation allow the lives of its innocent poor to be parched out of them by fog fever, and rotted out of them by dunghill plague, for the sake of sixpence a life extra per week to its landlords ;* and then debate, with drivelling * See the evidence in the Medical officer's report to the Privy Council, just published.
What to read after Sesame And Lilies: Two Lectures Delivered At Manchester in 1864?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 to read onlineMoreLess
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