John Ruskin,
The Ethics of the Dust — Second Preface to the Second Edition
(1875)
“ But on the habit of measuring and reverencing our powers and talents that we may kindly use them, will be founded a true Social science, developing, by the employment of them, all the real powers and honorable feelings of the race. ”
John Ruskin,
The Ethics of the Dust — Second Preface to the Second Edition
(1875)
“ V. The dialogue with Lucilla, beginning at p. 96, is, to my own fancy, the best bit of conversation in the book; and the issue of it, at p. 103, the most practically and immediately useful. For on the idea of the inevitable weakness and corruption of human nature, has logically followed, in our daily life, the horrible creed of modern "Social science," that all social action must be scientifically founded on vicious impulses. ”
John Ruskin,
The Ethics of the Dust — Second Preface to the Second Edition
(1875)
“ It does not refer to the distinct cases in which virtue consists in faith given to command, appearing to foolish human judgment inconsistent with the Moral Law, as in the sacrifice of Isaac; nor to those in which any directly-given command requires nothing more of virtue than obedience. ”
