The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872Ruskin, John
Philosophy
The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872
Ruskin, John
Art and science
Chromo-lithotints, style of, 69-71.
Church of England, 73.
Cid, The, 240.
Civilization, false, 94.
Civil Service, the, and Orissa, 35.
Classification, scientific, 186-7.
Cleanliness and art, 95.
Clematis, a bird's nest of, 48.
Clouds, 129-30.
" effect of storm-clouds on scientist, artist, and scholar, 7.
" forms of, unexplained by science, 131.
Coins, English "angels," 117.
" engravings of, 157. See s. _Angels_, _Sovereign_.
Colonization, Englishmen likely to be colonists, 94.
Colour, connection of with health, 113.
" design in, on Gothic shields, 233.
" gloomy, in art, 69.
" in dress, originates in the skins of animals, 226-7.
" love of light, 113, 116, 117.
" perception of, a spiritual and moral power, 122.
" pure, delight in, 113, 115.
" school of shade and of crystalline colour, 114.
" temperance of, 71.
Common-sense in the English, 24, 25. See s. _Aristotle_.
Competition in art, 88.
" in education, 177, 212.
Conceit of science, 22.
Conceptions, range of dignity of, and literature, 7-8.
" reason and, 11.
Consideration for others demands imagination, 27.
Contentment and advance in knowledge, 81.
Copiapo, 83.
Copley Fielding, 41.
"Coronis," Pindar's, 189.
Correggio, use of orange for red by, 226.
Corruptibility of art, 11, 13.
Cottages, who should build peasants', and how, 201.
Courtesy, instance of modern, 240.
Covetousness in art, 81.
Coxe, Mr. (Bodleian Library, Oxford), 157.
Crane, legs of a, 162.
Creation, man's relation to the brute, 30.
Creatures, different knowledge fit for different, 21.
Creed, Apostles', its first three clauses, 169.
Crest, heraldic meaning of the, 228.
" personal, but becomes hereditary, 230.
Cross, heraldic, 235.
" heraldic quartering and the, 236.
Crystal Palace, toy at the, 93.
Cuirass, earliest form of, 224.
Cup, forms of, 139.
Cuvier, classification of birds, 188.
Daisy, Wordsworth on a, 51.
Dancing, fair and foul, 13, 14.
Dante, quoted or referred to--
" " _De remi, facemmo ale al folle volo_, 79.
" " on Pisa's cruelty, 35.
" " on the sight of Beatrice, 177.
" " on Ulysses, 75.
Darwin, account of peacock's feather, 185.
Darwinism, 153-155, 207.
Death, connection with the myth of the Halcyon, 199.
" love of, by modern art, 69.
Decency and art, 95.
Deeds, taught by art, 8.
Defence, heraldic sign of, 235. (s.).
Delights, man's best, 212.
Dependence, 77.
Derivative beauty in modern art, 219.
Design in nature, 152, seq.
Desires, man's best, 212.
Devices on Greek and Gothic shields, 233.
Devil, personality of the, 69.
" truth of the expression, "the Devil in him," _ib._
Dictionaries, contain "Tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau," 100.
Dinner, derivation of word, 235.
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