A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)Ruskin, John
Philosophy
A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)
Ruskin, John
Art
God always sends men for the work, but we crush them, 133.
" His work, its fulfilment by men, 122.
Gold, its uses, as a medium of exchange, 150.
" " incorruptible and to be used for lasting things, 46.
" " not therefore to be used for coinage, 46.
Goldsmiths, artists who have been, 46.
" educational training for artists, 46 _n._
" work of, 45 _seq._
Government, enforcement of divine law, 121.
" in details, 122 _seq._
" paternal, 14.
" " "in loco parentis," 16 _n._
" " defined, 121.
" principles of, at the root of economy, 11
" " Faith, Hope, Charity, 57.
" to be conservative, but expectant, 58.
" to form, not only reform, 15.
" to give work to all who want it, 129.
Great men and the public, 137
" the work they are sent to do, 133
Greatness, the humility of, 137.
Greece, development of physical beauty, 176.
Guilds of trade, decoration of their buildings, 116 _seq._
Hesiod's "Eris", 176.
Historians, mistaken way of pointing out how great men are fitted for
their work, 133.
Historical painting as a means of education, 106-7.
History, the study of mediaeval, as well as ancient, insisted on, 109.
Horace, "justus, et propositi tenax," 182.
" "prava jubentium," _ib._
Horse and man, bridling of, 18.
Hospitals, decoration of, 114.
Housewife, her seriousness and her smile, 10.
Housewifery, perfect, 10.
Humility of greatness, 137.
" the companion of joy and usefulness, 168.
Illustrations, modern, bad art of, 40.
Independence, dishonest efforts after, 131.
Indian shawls, design of, 173.
Industry, its duty to the past and future, 72.
Infidelity, modern, 177.
Invention, national, of new wants, 138.
Inventors, to be publicly rewarded, but to have no patents, 113.
Island, desert, analogy of a, and political economy, 110.
Italy, Austrians in, 78.
" cradle of art, 82.
" destruction of art in modern, 84.
" modern art of, 85.
" state of, 1857, 84.
" thunderclouds in, "the winepress of God's wrath," 77.
Italian character, 84.
Jewels, cutting of, 52.
" modern, bad and costly, 159.
" property in, 146.
Jews, Christian dislike of, 81.
Keats, quoted, "a joy for ever," 1880 _pref._ ix-x.
King, the virtues of a (Siena fresco), 60.
Kingship, crowned by charity (Siena fresco), 59.
" modern contempt for, 177.
Labour, a claim to property, 145.
" constant, not intermittent, needed, 11.
" end of, is happiness, not money, 174.
" " to bring the whole country under cultivation, 12.
" management of, _is_ economy, 7.
" organisation of, no "out of work" cry, 11-12.
" " under government, planned, 127-31.
" sufficiency of a man's labour for all his needs, 7.
" " " nation's " its " 7.
Labour, _continued_;--
" waste of, in various kinds of useless art, cut-glass, mosaic, &c, 34.
" " dress, 50 _seq._
Lace-making, 52.
" machine and hand-made, 170.
" value of, in its labour, 171.
Laissez-aller, a ruinous principle, 16.
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