6. Dress-making.--Substantial dress, of standard material and kind, strong shoes, and stout bedding, to be manufactured for the poor, so as to render it unnecessary for them, unless by extremity of improvidence, to wear cast clothes, or be without sufficiency of clothing. 7. Works of Art.--Schools to be established on thoroughly sound principles of manufacture and use of materials, and with simple and, for given periods, unalterable modes of work; first in pottery, and embracing gradually metal work, sculpture, and decorative painting; the two points insisted upon, in distinction from ordinary commercial establishments, being perfectness of material to the utmost attainable degree; and the production of everything by hand-work, for the special purpose of developing personal power and skill in the workman. The two last departments, and some subordinate branches of the others, would include the service of women and children. FOOTNOTES: [126] There were two editions of this pamphlet. The first was entitled "First Notes on the General Principles of Employment for the Destitute and Criminal Classes. By John Ruskin, A.M. For private circulation only. 1868" (pp. 11, including the title-page. London: Strangeways & Walden, printers, Castle Street, Leicester Square). Mr. Ruskin enclosed the second edition to the _Daily Telegraph_, where almost the whole of the pamphlet was reprinted. The differences between the two editions consisted only in one or two additions in the second (see below, pages 197 and 202, notes). [127] The reform bill of 1867. The late parliament had been dissolved on November 11, and the new one had just sat (December 10, 1868). [128] The _Daily Telegraph_ reprinted the pamphlet from this point to the end. [129] In order fully to utilize this natural power, we only require machinery to turn the variable into a constant velocity--no insurmountable difficulty.[131] [130] Here the first edition of the pamphlet ends; the remaining sentences being contained in the second edition only. [131] This note was not contained in the first edition of the pamphlet, and was not reprinted by the _Daily Telegraph_. [From "The Y. M. A. Magazine," conducted by the Young Men's Association, Clapham Congregational Church. September, 1879. Vol. iii., No. 12, p. 242.] _BLINDNESS AND SIGHT._[132] BRANTWOOD, CONISTON, LANCASHIRE, _18th July_, 1879. MY DEAR SIR: The reason I never answered was--I now find--the difficulty of explaining my fixed principle never to join in any invalid charities. All the foolish world is ready to help in _them_; and will spend large incomes in trying to make idiots think, and the blind read, but will leave the noblest intellects to go to the Devil, and the brightest eyes to remain spiritually blind forever! All _my_ work is to help those who _have_ eyes and see not. Ever faithfully yours, J. RUSKIN. THOS. POCOCK, ESQ.