E-text prepared by David Clarke and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) UNTO THIS LAST AND OTHER ESSAYS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY by JOHN RUSKIN London Melbourne & Toronto Ward Lock & Co Limited 1912 CONTENTS. PART I. PAGE THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART 7 LECTURE I. 11 1. Discovery 23 2. Application 28 LECTURE II. 46 3. Accumulation 46 4. Distribution 65 ADDENDA 86 Note 1.--"Fatherly Authority" 86 " 2.--"Right to Public Support" 90 " 3.--"Trial Schools" 95 " 4.--"Public Favour" 101 " 5.--"Invention of new wants" 102 " 6.--"Economy of Literature" 104 " 7.--"Pilots of the State" 106 " 8.--"Silk and Purple" 107 PART II. UNTO THIS LAST 117 ESSAY I.--The Roots of Honour 127 II.--The Veins of Wealth 143 III.--"Qui Judicatis Terram" 156 IV.--Ad Valorem 173 PART III. ESSAYS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY[A] I.--MAINTENANCE OF LIFE: WEALTH, MONEY AND RICHES 207 Section 1. Wealth 214 " 2. Money 219 " 3. Riches 222 II.--NATURE OF WEALTH, VARIATIONS OF VALUE, THE NATIONAL STORE, NATURE OF LABOUR, VALUE AND PRICE, THE CURRENCY 225 III.--THE CURRENCY-HOLDERS AND STORE-HOLDERS, THE DISEASE OF DESIRE 252 IV.--LAWS AND GOVERNMENTS: LABOUR AND RICHES 278 [A] These Essays were afterwards revised and amplified, and published with others under the title "Munera Pulveris." THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART. PREFACE.