Fors Clavigera (Volume 6 of 8): $b Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great BritainRuskin, John
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Fors Clavigera (Volume 6 of 8): $b Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain
Ruskin, John
Aesthetics; Conduct of life; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Social problems; Working class -- Great Britain
III. The Psyche, in its sanity, and beauty (of which, when I have
finished my inventory, I will give Plato’s estimate in his own words).
Some curious practical results have followed from the denial of its
existence by modern philosophers; for the true and divine distinction
between ‘genera’ of animals, and quite the principal ‘origin of
species’ in them, is in their Psyche: but modern naturalists, not being
able to vivisect the Psyche, have on the whole resolved that animals
are to be classed by their bones; and whereas, for instance, by divine
distinction of Psyche, the Dog and Wolf are precisely opposite
creatures in their function to the sheepfold; and, spiritually, the
Dominican, or Dog of the Lord, is for ever in like manner opposed to
the Wolf of the Devil, modern science, finding Dog and Wolf
indistinguishable in their Bones, declares them to be virtually one and
the same animal. [85]
IV. The Body, in its sanity and beauty: strength of it being the first
simple meaning of what the Greeks called virtue: and the eternity of it
being the special doctrine of the form of religion professed in
Christendom under the name of Christianity.
V. The things good and pleasing to the Psyche; as the visible things of
creation,—sky, water, flowers, and the like; and the treasured-up words
or feats of other Spirits.
VI. The things good and pleasing to the Body; summed under the two
heads of Bread and Wine, brought forth by the Amorite King of Salem.
VII. The documents giving claim to the possession of these things, when
not in actual possession; or ‘money.’
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