A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)

by John Ruskin

BASED ON NATURAL SELECTION.

Paper read before the Metaphysical Society, May 11th, 1875.[23]

175. It has always seemed to me that Societies like this of ours, happy in including members not a little diverse in thought and various in knowledge, might be more useful to the public than perhaps they can fairly be said to have approved themselves hitherto, by using their variety of power rather to support intellectual conclusions by concentric props, than to shake them with rotatory storms of wit; and modestly endeavouring to initiate the building of walls for the Bridal city of Science, in which no man will care to identify the particular stones he lays, rather than complying farther with the existing picturesque, but wasteful, practice of every knight to throw up a feudal tower of his own opinions, tenable only by the most active pugnacity, and pierced rather with arrow-slits from which to annoy his neighbours, than windows to admit light or air.

176. The paper read at our last meeting was unquestionably, within the limits its writer had prescribed to himself, so logically sound, that (encouraged also by the suggestion of some of our most influential members), I shall endeavour to make the matter of our to-night's debate consequent upon it, and suggestive of possibly further advantageous deductions.

It will be remembered that, in reference to the statement in the Bishop of Peterborough's Paper, of the moral indifference of certain courses of conduct on the postulate of the existence only of a Mechanical base of Morals, it was observed by Dr. Adam Clarke that, even on such mechanical basis, the word "moral" might still be applied specially to any course of action which tended to the development of the human race. Whereupon I ventured myself to inquire, in what direction such development was to be understood as taking place; and the discussion of this point being then dropped for want of time, I would ask the Society's permission to bring it again before them this evening in a somewhat more extended form; for in reality the question respecting the development of men is twofold,—first, namely, in what direction; and secondly, in what social relations, it is to be sought.

I would therefore at present ask more deliberately than I could at our last meeting,—first, in what direction it is desirable that the development of humanity should take place? Should it, for instance, as in Greece, be of physical beauty,—emulation, (Hesiod's second Eris),—pugnacity, and patriotism? or, as in modern England, of physical ugliness,—envy, (Hesiod's first Eris),—cowardice, and selfishness? or, as by a conceivably humane but hitherto unexampled education might be attempted, of physical beauty, humility, courage, and affection, which should make all the world one native land, and πασα γη τἁφος?

177. I do not doubt but that the first automatic impulse of all our automatic friends here present, on hearing this sentence, will be strenuously to deny the accuracy of my definition of the aims of modern English education. Without attempting to defend it, I would only observe that this automatic development of solar caloric in scientific minds must be grounded on an automatic sensation of injustice done to the members of the School Board, as well as to many other automatically well-meaning and ingenious persons; and that this sense of the injuriousness and offensiveness of my definition cannot possibly have any other basis (if I may be permitted to continue my professional similitudes) than the fallen remnants and goodly stones, not one now left on another, but still forming an unremovable cumulus of ruin, and eternal Birs Nimroud, as it were, on the site of the old belfry of Christian morality, whose top looked once so like touching Heaven.

For no offence could be taken at my definition, unless traceable to adamantine conviction,—that ugliness, however indefinable, envy, however natural, and cowardice, however commercially profitable, are nevertheless eternally disgraceful; contrary, that is to say, to the grace of our Lord Christ, if there be among us any Christ; to the grace of the King's Majesty, if there be among us any King; and to the grace even of Christless and Kingless Manhood, if there be among us any Manhood.

To this fixed conception of a difference between Better and Worse, or, when carried to the extreme, between good and evil in conduct, we all, it seems to me, instinctively and, therefore, rightly, attach the term of Moral sense;—the sense, for instance, that it would be better if the members of this Society who are usually automatically absent were, instead, automatically present; or better, that this Paper, if (which is, perhaps, too likely) it be thought automatically impertinent, had been made by the molecular action of my cerebral particles, pertinent.

178. Trusting, therefore, without more ado, to the strength of rampart in this Old Sarum of the Moral sense, however subdued into vague banks under the modern steam-plough, I will venture to suppose the first of my two questions to have been answered by the choice on the part at least of a majority of our Council, of the third direction of development above specified as being the properly called "moral" one; and will go on to the second subject of inquiry, both more difficult and of great practical importance in the political crisis through which Europe is passing,—namely, what relations between men are to be desired, or with resignation allowed, in the course of their Moral Development?

Whether, that is to say, we should try to make some men beautiful at the cost of ugliness in others, and some men virtuous at the cost of vice in others,—or rather, all men beautiful and virtuous in the degree possible to each under a system of equitable education? And evidently our first business is to consider in what terms the choice is put to us by Nature. What can we do, if we would? What must we do, whether we will or not? How high can we raise the level of a diffused Learning and Morality? and how far shall we be compelled, if we limit, to exaggerate, the advantages and injuries of our system? And are we prepared, if the extremity be inevitable, to push to their utmost the relations implied when we take off our hats to each other, and triple the tiara of the Saint in Heaven, while we leave the sinner bareheaded in Cocytus?

179. It is well, perhaps, that I should at once confess myself to hold the principle of limitation in its utmost extent; and to entertain no doubt of the rightness of my ideal, but only of its feasibility. I am ill at ease, for instance, in my uncertainty whether our greatly regretted Chairman will ever be Pope, or whether some people whom I could mention, (not, of course, members of our Society,) will ever be in Cocytus.

But there is no need, if we would be candid, to debate the principle in these violences of operation, any more than the proper methods of distributing food, on the supposition that the difference between a Paris dinner and a platter of Scotch porridge must imply that one-half of mankind are to die of eating, and the rest of having nothing to eat. I will therefore take for example a case in which the discrimination is less conclusive.

180. When I stop writing metaphysics this morning it will be to arrange some drawings for a young lady to copy. They are leaves of the best illuminated MSS. I have, and I am going to spend my whole afternoon in explaining to her what she is to aim at in copying them.

Now, I would not lend these leaves to any other young lady that I know of; nor give up my afternoon to, perhaps, more than two or three other young ladies that I know of. But to keep to the first-instanced one, I lend her my books, and give her, for what they are worth, my time and most careful teaching, because she at present paints butterflies better than any other girl I know, and has a peculiar capacity for the softening of plumes and finessing of antennæ. Grant me to be a good teacher, and grant her disposition to be such as I suppose, and the result will be what might at first appear an indefensible iniquity, namely, that this girl, who has already excellent gifts, having also excellent teaching, will become perhaps the best butterfly-painter in England; while myriads of other girls, having originally inferior powers, and attracting no attention from the Slade Professor, will utterly lose their at present cultivable faculties of entomological art, and sink into the vulgar career of wives and mothers, to which we have Mr. Mill's authority for holding it a grievous injustice that any girl should be irrevocably condemned.

181. There is no need that I should be careful in enumerating the various modes, analogous to this, in which the Natural selection of which we have lately heard, perhaps, somewhat more than enough, provokes and approves the Professorial selection which I am so bold as to defend; and if the automatic instincts of equity in us, which revolt against the great ordinance of Nature and practice of Man, that "to him that hath, shall more be given," are to be listened to when the possessions in question are only of wisdom and virtue, let them at least prove their sincerity by correcting, first, the injustice which has established itself respecting more tangible and more esteemed property; and terminating the singular arrangement prevalent in commercial Europe that to every man with a hundred pounds in his pocket there shall annually be given three, to every man with a thousand, thirty, and to every man with nothing, none.

182. I am content here to leave under the scrutiny of the evening my general statement, that as human development, when moral, is with special effort in a given direction, so, when moral, it is with special effort in favour of a limited class; but I yet trespass for a few moments on your patience in order to note that the acceptance of this second principle still leaves it debatable to what point the disfavour of the reprobate class, or the privileges of the elect, may advisably extend. For I cannot but feel for my own part as if the daily bread of moral instruction might at least be so widely broken among the multitude as to preserve them from utter destitution and pauperism in virtue; and that even the simplest and lowest of the rabble should not be so absolutely sons of perdition, but that each might say for himself,—"For my part—no offence to the General, or any man of quality—I hope to be saved." Whereas it is, on the contrary, implied by the habitual expressions of the wisest aristocrats, that the completely developed persons whose Justice and Fortitude—poles to the Cardinal points of virtue—are marked as their sufficient characteristics by the great Roman moralist in his phrase, "Justus, et tenax propositi," will in the course of nature be opposed by a civic ardour, not merely of the innocent and ignorant, but of persons developed in a contrary direction to that which I have ventured to call "moral," and therefore not merely incapable of desiring or applauding what is right, but in an evil harmony, prava jubentium, clamorously demanding what is wrong.

183. The point to which both Natural and Divine Selection would permit us to advance in severity towards this profane class, to which the enduring "Ecce Homo," or manifestation of any properly human sentiment or person, must always be instinctively abominable, seems to be conclusively indicated by the order following on the parable of the Talents,—"Those mine enemies, bring hither, and slay them before me." Nor does it seem reasonable, on the other hand, to set the limits of favouritism more narrowly. For even if, among fallible mortals, there may frequently be ground for the hesitation of just men to award the punishment of death to their enemies, the most beautiful story, to my present knowledge, of all antiquity, that of Cleobis and Bito, might suggest to them the fitness on some occasions, of distributing without any hesitation the reward of death to their friends. For surely the logical conclusion of the Bishop of Peterborough, respecting the treatment due to old women who have nothing supernatural about them, holds with still greater force when applied to the case of old women who have everything supernatural about them; and while it might remain questionable to some of us whether we had any right to deprive an invalid who had no soul, of what might still remain to her of even painful earthly existence; it would surely on the most religious grounds be both our privilege and our duty at once to dismiss any troublesome sufferer who had a soul, to the distant and inoffensive felicities of heaven.

184. But I believe my hearers will approve me in again declining to disturb the serene confidence of daily action by these speculations in extreme; the really useful conclusion which, it seems to me, cannot be evaded, is that, without going so far as the exile of the inconveniently wicked, and translation of the inconveniently sick, to their proper spiritual mansions, we should at least be certain that we do not waste care in protracting disease which might have been spent in preserving health; that we do not appease in the splendour of our turreted hospitals the feelings of compassion which, rightly directed, might have prevented the need of them; nor pride ourselves on the peculiar form of Christian benevolence which leaves the cottage roofless to model the prison, and spends itself with zealous preference where, in the keen words of Carlyle, if you desire the material on which maximum expenditure of means and effort will produce the minimum result, "here you accurately have it."

185. I cannot but, in conclusion, most respectfully but most earnestly, express my hope that measures may be soon taken by the Lords Spiritual of England to assure her doubting mind of the real existence of that supernatural revelation of the basis of morals to which the Bishop of Peterborough referred in the close of his paper; or at least to explain to her bewildered populace the real meaning and force of the Ten Commandments, whether written originally by the finger of God or Man. To me personally, I own, as one of that bewildered populace, that the essay by one of our most distinguished members on the Creed of Christendom seems to stand in need of explicit answer from our Divines; but if not, and the common application of the terms "Word of God" to the books of Scripture be against all question tenable, it becomes yet more imperative on the interpreters of that Scripture to see that they are not made void by our traditions, and that the Mortal sins of Covetousness, Fraud, Usury, and contention be not the essence of a National life orally professing submission to the laws of Christ, and satisfaction in His Love.

J. Ruskin.

"Thou shalt not covet; but tradition
Approves all forms of Competition."
Arthur Clough.

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INDEX.

Transcriber's note: index entries of page numbers followed by n. should indicate that references will be found in a note on that page number. However, most of these references to notes on particular pages are inaccurate. The direct page number links, however, are accurate.

(The references are made to the numbered paragraphs, not to the pages, and are thus applicable to every edition of the book since that of 1880.)

Accumulation of learning, its law, [73.]
Accuracy and depth of study, distinct, [1857 pref.]
Admiration, increase of, a test of progress in art, [167.]
Almsgiving, [142.]
" parish, &c., [129.]
Almshouses, decoration of, [115.]
" prejudice of poor against, [129-30.]
Alpine climbing, risks of, [151.]
Ambition, in youth and age, [26.]
America, absence of great art in, [87.]
" bad shipbuilding in, [112 n.]
" commercial panic in, [151.]
Ancestors, respect for their work insisted on, [72.]
Architecture, Gothic, sculpture to be in easiest materials, [34.]
" " to be studied at Verona, [76.]
" variety in, to be demanded, [32.]
" " cheapens the price, ib.
Arcola, battle of, [77.]
Arethusa, the, and the Belle-Poule engraving, [147.]
Αρετη and art, [155.]
Art, cheap, its purchase, [40.]
" " great art not to be too cheap, and why, [62 seq.]
" demand for good, and the possibility of having too much, [38.]
" dress, beauty of, essential to good art, [54.]
" education in (author's paper on), [153 seq.]
" function of, to exalt as well as to please, [38.]
" -gift and art-study, [172.]
" good, to be lasting in its materials and power, [39.]
" " to be done for and be worthy of all time, [46.]
" great, the expression of a great soul, [136.]
" has laws, which must be recognised, [157.]
" -intellect in a nation, cannot be created, [20-1.]
" its debt to Italy, [82.]
" labour and, [19.]
" " the labour to be various, easy, permanent, [31 seq.]
" literature and, the cost of, [67.]
" love of old, essential to produce new, [88.]
" materials of, to be lasting, [39], [42.]
" models in art schools, [162-4.]
" modern interest in, [168.]
" " " objects of, and old pictures, [86.]
" original work, the best to buy, [41.]
" permanency of—e.g., a painted window, [37.]
" -power a gift, [158.]
" " in a nation, how to produce, [132.]
" " waste of, on perishable things, [45.]
" preservation of works of, [73-4.]
" " (1857) more important than production, [92.]
" price of good, 41. See s. Pictures.
" progress in, tested by increased imagination, [167.]
" public to demand noble subjects of, [29.]
" " effect of public demand on, [165.]
" repetition in, monotonous, [32.]
" schools, trial, [22-3.]
" " provincial, to have good art-models, [169.]
" students, 153 seq.
" -study will not "pay," [174.]
" test of good, will it please a century hence? [39.]
" value of, depends on artist's capacity, not education, [136.]
" variety of work, [32.]
" work, hard, needed for, [158.]
" works of, illustrate each other, [63.]
" works of, property in, [147.]
" " provincial distribution of, [169.]
" " their conservative effect, [132 n.]
" " to be lasting, [36.]
See s. Admiration, America, Architecture, Arethusa,
Ἁρετη, Artist, Beauty, Buildings, Cheapness, Colour, Criticism,
Design, Diletto, Drawing, Dress, Education, Europe,
Florence, France, Genius, Glass, Gold, Goldsmiths,
Historical painting, Indian shawls, Italy, Jewels, Labour, Lace,
Lombard, Marble, Mosaic, Painter, Philosophy, Pictures,
Reverence, Schools, Trade, Wall-paper, War, Water colour,
Wealth, Woodcuts.
Artist, education of the, to be a gentleman—i.e., feel nobly, [28.]
" encouragement of, in youth, [23.]
" goldsmith's work, good training for, [46.]
" greatest, have other powers than their art, [21.]
" jealousy among, [98.]
" modern training of, [132.]
" nascitur non fit, [20.]
" temper of, what, [132.]
" to be a good man, [28.]
" trial schools to discover, [22-3.]
See s. Dürer, Francia, Gainsborough, Ghiberti, Ghirlandajo,
Giotto, Leonardo, Lewis, Lorenzetti, Michael Angelo,
Rembrandt, Reynolds, Tintoret, Titian, Turner,
Veronese, Verrocchio.
"Asphodel meadows of our youth," [26.]
Athletic games and education, [128.]
Austrians, in Italy, [78.]
Author, his idea of a knight, when a child, [106.]
" " teaching young lady to copy old MS., [180.]
life of:
at Brantwood, April 29, 1880.
" Manchester, July 10 and 13, 1857, [1], [61.]
" Metaphysical Society, 1875, [175.]
" Oxford, art teaching, pref. [ix].
" Working Men's College, [156.]
" Venice, [141 n.]
" teaching of:
misunderstood, [180.]
political economy, has read no modern books on, [1857 pref.]
political influence of art, [1880 pref.]
true wealth honoured by, [1.]
words fail him to express modern folly, [49.]
" books of, quoted, &c.:
" A Joy for Ever" contains germs of subsequent work, [1880 pref.]
" revision for press, [1857 pref.]
" title, [1880 pref.]
on his own writings, [140.]
they cost him pain, and he does not expect then to give pleasure, [1880 pref.]
Barataria, the island of ("Don Quixote "), [65.]
Beauty in art, on what based, [vi].
Bible, The, to be realised as (not only called) God's Word [185.]
Quoted, or referred to.
Job iii. 3, "Let the day perish wherein I was born ... a child conceived, [119].
" xxxi. 40, "Let thistles grow instead of wheat," &c., [101.]
Ps. xxxii. 8, "I will guide thee with mine eye," [18.]
" xxxii. 9, "Be ye not as the horse or mule," [18.]
" c. 4, "Enter into His gates with thanksgiving," [1880 pref.]
Prov. i. 20, "Wisdom uttereth her voice in the streets," [112 n.]
" iii. 15, "Wisdom more precious than rubies," [174.]
" iii. 16, "Length of days are in her right hand," &c., [130.]
" iii. 17, "Her ways pleasantness and her paths peace," [120.]
" xiii. 23, "Much food is in the tillage of the poor," [7 n.]
" xxxi. 15, "She riseth while it is yet night," [9], [58.]
" xxxi. 25, "Strength and honour are in her clothing," &c., [60.]
Hab. ii., its practical lessons, 112 n.
" ii. 6, "Woe to him ... that ladeth himself with thick clay," [112 n.]
" ii. 12, "Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood," [112 n.]
" ii. 13, "The people weary themselves for vanity," [112 n.]
Zach. vii. 9, 10, "Execute true judgment ... and let none imagine evil," &c., [112 n.]
Matt. vii. 16, "Gather figs of thistles," [133.]
Luke xix. 26, "To him that hath shall be given," [181.]
" xix. 27, "Those mine enemies bring hither and slay them before me, [183.]
2 Thess. iii. 10, "If any work not, neither shall he eat," [145.]
Books, not to be too cheap, and why, [65.]
" numbers of, nowadays, and the result, [140.]
Botany, what to learn in, [128.]
Bridle of man, the Eye of God, [18.]
Brotherhood—"All men are brothers," what it implies, [14.]
" politically and divinely, [121.]
Browning, E. B., on Italy, [78 n.]
Buildings, public, their decoration, [104.]
Capitalist, the, his command over men, [4.]
Carlyle, T., on the value of horses and men, [18.]
" "keen words" of, quoted, [184.]
Casa Guidi, windows of the, referred to, [36 n.]
Charity, crowning kingship (Siena fresco), [59.]
" in preserving health, not in protracting disease, [184.]
" is guidance, [127.]
" not a geographical virtue, [81.]
" true, defined, [118.]
Charon, [3.]
Chartres, [86.]
Cheapness not to be considered in producing art, [37.]
" of good art, undesirable and why, [62 seq.]
Cheating disgraceful, but being cheated is not, [89.]
Church-going and life, [14.]
" restoration, mania for, [86-7.]
Clarke, Dr. Adam, at the Metaphysical Society, [176.]
Cleobis and Bito, death of, [109.]
" story of, beautiful, [183.]
Clergymen, to preach practically—e.g., on trade, [112 n.]
Cleverness, best shown in sympathy with the aims of others, [170.]
Clough, Arthur, quoted, [185 n.]
Cocoa-nut, simile from a, as to the cheapness of good art, [64.]
Colour, good, to be lasting, [44.]
" local, as an element of chiaroscuro, [162.]
Commerce, cowardice and, [177.]
" frauds of, [151-2.]
" modern, [1857 pref.] [xi].
Competition, a bad thing in education, [135.]
Conservatism, true, [58.]
Country, serving one's, with plough, pen, and sword, [129.]
Cricket, the game of, [128.]
Criticism, mistaken blame worse than mistaken praise, [24.]
" public, its effect on artists, [24.]
Currency, national, its nature, [149.]
Dante—Inferno, the purse round the neck as a sign of condemnation, [4.]
" " Lasciate ogni speranza, [93.]
Deane, Sir T., on the Oxford Museum, [32.]
Death, as a reward, [183.]
Design, dependent on proportion, [160.]
" study of, [159.]
" subjects of, [172-3.]
Development, the direction of human, [175.]
Dialogue on "paternal government," [121.]
Diamond-cutting, waste of time, [34.]
Dictionary of classical antiquities, woodcuts in, [107.]
"Diletto" and art, [155.]
Diogenes, respected, [2-3.]
Discipline the basis of progress, [16.]
Discovery of men of genius, [20.]
Disobedience destroys power of understanding, [1857 pref.] [x].
Drawing as a means of description, [153.]
" lessons, [156.]
" to be learnt, as reading or writing, [153], [158.]
" to scale, to be learnt, [160.]
Dress, art of, [47.]
" beautiful, essential to great art—e.g., its portraiture, [54.]
" " characteristics of, [54.]
" " a means of education, [54.]
" best, not the costliest, [54.]
" employment of labour—e.g., ball-dresses, [50.]
" fashion in, wasted power of design, [45.]
" fine, the spoils of death, [53.]
" " as a subject of expenditure, [146.]
" " under what circumstance, right and wrong, [52.]
" lace, its value, [171.]
Dürer's engravings, art-models, [169.]
" " permanency of, [42.]
" " crest with cock, as art-model, [164.]
" woodcuts, [40.]
Economy, its true meaning (application: accumulation: distribution), [8 seq.]
" the art of managing labour, [7], [8.]
" the balance of splendour and utility, [10.]
" does not mean saving money, [8.]
" simile of farm life, [11.]
" the laws of, same for nation and individual, [12 seq.]
See s. Almsgiving, Author, Capitalist, Charity, Cheating,
Commerce, Currency, Education, Employment,
England, Farm, Gentlemen, Gold, Labour, Land,
Luxury, Money, National works, Panics, Parish relief,
Pension, Political Economy, Poor, Poverty, Property,
Trade, Wealth.
Education, best claimed by offering obedience, [16.]
" drawing to be part of, [156.]
" dress as a means of, [54.]
" eye, the best medium of, [106.]
" formative, not reformative only, [15.]
" in Art, author's paper on, [153 seq.]
" liberty to be controlled by, [128.]
" manual trade to be learnt by all youths, [128.]
" modern, [135.]
" " in England, its bad tendency, [177.]
" schools of, to be beautiful, [104-5.]
" refinement of habits, a part of, [104.]
" waste of, on dead languages, [128.]
" young men, their, [134.]
Edward I., progress since the days of, [1857 pref.]
Emotion, quickness of, is not capacity for it, [132.]
Employment, may be claimed by the obedient, [16.]
England, art-treasures in, their number, [5.]
" modern, its ugliness, [176.]
" the rich men of, their duty, [118-9.]
English character, impulse and prudence of, [17.]
" " self-dependence, [130.]
Envy, vile, [177.]
Europe, no great art, except in, [87.]
Examinations, their educational aim and value, [136.]
Eye, the, nobler than the ear, and a better means of education, [106.]
Faith, frescoes of, Ambrozio Lorenzetti, Siena, [57.]
" kinds of, [57.]
Famine, how it comes, [133.]
Fancy, as essential to fine manufacture, [172.]
Farm, metaphor of a, applied to national economy, [11.]
Fashion, change of, as wasting power of design, [45.]
Florence, art and dress of, [54.]
" drawing at, 1400-1500, art-models, [169.]
Fools, the wise to take of the, [118.]
France, art in, great, and beautiful dress, [54.]
" English prejudice against, [81.]
" social philosophy in, "fraternité" a true principle, [14.]
Francia, a goldsmith, [46.]
Frescoes, whitewashing of Italian, [85.]
Fraternity implies paternity, [14] (cp. Time and Tide, [177]).
Funeral, English love of a "decent," [70.]
Gainsborough, his want of gentle training, [28.]
" learns from Italian art, [82.]
Genius, men of, and art, four questions as to (production, employment, accumulation, distribution), [19.]
" " their early struggles, due to their starting on wrong work, [23.]
Gentlemen, tradesmen to be accounted, [114.]
Ghiberti's gates, M. Angelo on, [46.]
" a goldsmith, [46.]
Ghirlandajo, a goldsmith, [46.]
" M. Angelo's master, [46.]
Giotto's frescoes, Assisi, perishing for want of care, [86.]
" discovered by Cimabue, [133.]
Glass, cut, waste of labour on, [34.]
" painted, French 1200-1300, the best, [169.]
God always sends men for the work, but we crush them, [133.]
" His work, its fulfilment by men, [122.]
Gold, its uses, as a medium of exchange, [150.]
" " incorruptible and to be used for lasting things, [46.]
" " not therefore to be used for coinage, [46.]
Goldsmiths, artists who have been, [46.]
" educational training for artists, [46 n.]
" work of, [45 seq.]
Government, enforcement of divine law, [121.]
" in details, [122 seq.]
" paternal, [14.]
" " "in loco parentis," [16 n.]
" " defined, [121.]
" principles of, at the root of economy, [11]
" " Faith, Hope, Charity, [57.]
" to be conservative, but expectant, [58.]
" to form, not only reform, [15.]
" to give work to all who want it, [129.]
Great men and the public, [137]
" the work they are sent to do, [133]
Greatness, the humility of, [137.]
Greece, development of physical beauty, [176.]
Guilds of trade, decoration of their buildings, [116 seq.]
Hesiod's "Eris", [176.]
Historians, mistaken way of pointing out how great men are fitted for their work, [133.]
Historical painting as a means of education, [106-7.]
History, the study of mediæval, as well as ancient, insisted on, [109.]
Horace, "justus, et propositi tenax," [182.]
" "prava jubentium," ib.
Horse and man, bridling of, [18.]
Hospitals, decoration of, [114.]
Housewife, her seriousness and her smile, [10.]
Housewifery, perfect, [10.]
Humility of greatness, [137.]
" the companion of joy and usefulness, [168.]
Illustrations, modern, bad art of, [40.]
Independence, dishonest efforts after, [131.]
Indian shawls, design of, [173.]
Industry, its duty to the past and future, [72.]
Infidelity, modern, [177.]
Invention, national, of new wants, [138.]
Inventors, to be publicly rewarded, but to have no patents, [113.]
Island, desert, analogy of a, and political economy, [110.]
Italy, Austrians in, [78.]
" cradle of art, [82.]
" destruction of art in modern, [84.]
" modern art of, [85.]
" state of, 1857, [84.]
" thunderclouds in, "the winepress of God's wrath," [77.]
Italian character, [84.]
Jewels, cutting of, [52.]
" modern, bad and costly, [159.]
" property in, [146.]
Jews, Christian dislike of, [81.]
Keats, quoted, "a joy for ever," [1880 pref.] [ix-x].
King, the virtues of a (Siena fresco), [60.]
Kingship, crowned by charity (Siena fresco), [59.]
" modern contempt for, [177.]
Labour, a claim to property, [145.]
" constant, not intermittent, needed, [11.]
" end of, is happiness, not money, [174.]
" " to bring the whole country under cultivation, [12.]
" management of, is economy, [7.]
" organisation of, no "out of work" cry, [11-12.]
" " under government, planned, [127-31.]
" sufficiency of a man's labour for all his needs, [7.]
" " " nation's " its " [7.]
Labour, continued;—
" waste of, in various kinds of useless art, cut-glass, mosaic, &c., [34.]
" " dress, [50 seq.]
Lace-making, [52.]
" machine and hand-made, [170.]
" value of, in its labour, [171.]
Laissez-aller, a ruinous principle, [16.]
Land, the laws of cultivation, the same for a continent as for an acre, [12.]
-owners, their duties, [143.]
Law and liberty, [123.]
" most irksome, when most necessary, [15.]
" principles of, applied to minor things, [123.]
" should regulate everything it can, [126.]
" systems of, none perfect, [124.]
" to be protective, not merely punitive, [15.]
Legislation, paternal, dialogue on, [121.]
Leonardo da Vinci, an engineer, [21.]
" " " pupil of Verrocchio, [46.]
" " "work by, at Florence, [164.]
Leonidas' death, [109.]
Lewis, John, his work, and its prices, [102 n.]
Liberalism in government, true, [58.]
Liberty, law and, [123.]
" to be interfered with, for good of nation, [123-26.]
Life, battles of early, for men of genius, [23.]
" ideal of, simplicity plus imagination, [147.]
Literature, cheap, modern, [65.]
Lombard architecture at Pisa and Verona, [76.]
London season, cost of, in dress, [55.]
Look, people will not, at things, [141.]
Lorenzetti, Ambrozio, his frescoes of "government" at Siena, [57.]
Love and Kingship, see s. Charity.

Luxury, articles of, as "property," [146.]
" does not add to wealth, [48.]
" the influences of, [138.]
Macaulay's false saying, "the giants of one age, the pigmies of the next," [168.]
Magnanimity, the virtue of, its full meaning, [60.]
Mammon worship, in English commercial centres, [151.]
Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition 1858, [5], [69.]
" " motto of, "A joy for ever," [1880 pref.]
Mansfield Art Night Class, address to, 1873, [166 seq.]
Manufacture, defined, [169.]
Marathon, [109.]
Marble, a better material for sculpture than granite, [34.]
Marriage, desire for, in girls, [55.]
Medici, Pietro de, orders M. Angelo's snow-statue, [36.]
Menippus, [3.]
Metaphysical Society, author, May 4, 1875, reads paper at, [175.]
Michael Angelo, author's praise of, [36.]
" " Ghirlandajo's pupil, [46.]
" " on Ghiberti's gates, [46.]
" " snow-statue, [36.]
Mill, J. S., on wealth, [145 n.]
" " on women, [180.]
Misery, always the result of indolence or mistaken industry, [7.]
Mistress, of a house, ideal, described, [9], [10.]
Modernism, contempt for poverty and honour of wealth, [1 seq.]
See s. Commerce, Education, England, Italy, Wealth.
Money, a document of title, [148.]
" God's gift and not our own, and why, [116 seq.]
" great work never done for, [98], [102.]
" spending, is to employ labour, [48.]
" the way we spend it, important, [48-9.]
Morality, mechanical basis of, [176.]
" not to be limited to a class, [182.]
Moral sense, the, defined, [177.]
Mosaic, Florentine, waste of labour, [34.]
Motive, the only real, and rightness, [81.]
Mourning, English love of, [70.]
Museums, provincial, art-models for, [169.]
National works, as a means of art employment, [24.]
Nations in "brotherly concord and fatherly authority," [14.]
" energy of, to be directed, [16.]
" laws of, to be protective as well as punitive, [14.]
Natural forms, as subjects of design, [172.]
" History, the study of, to be extended, [155.]
" Science, and drawing, [156.]
New York, council of, on luxury, [138 n.]
Nottingham lace, [170.]
Novara, battle of, [77.]
Obedience, to what we dislike, [1857 pref.]
Obstinacy of great men against the public, [137-8.]
Overwork, decried, [11.]
Oxford Museum, Sir T. Deane on the, [32.]
Painter, poverty of early years, [100.]
" prices paid to a, [98.]
Panics, commercial—e.g., 1857, [151.]
Paper, necessity of good, for water-colour art, [43.]
Parable, The Ten Talents, its practical application, [114-15.]
Parents, noble delight of pleasing one's, possible only to the young, [27.]
Paris, destruction of, 1870-1, [168.]
Parish relief, no more infra dig. than State pensions, [129.]
Patents, no, but private inventions to be publicly rewarded, [113.]
Patriotism, what, [81.]
Pensions, are Government alms, [129.]
Peterborough, Bishop of, paper read at Metaphysical Society, [176], [183], [185.]
Photography, as a means of providing art-models, [164.]
" collections of Florentine Gallery photos, ib.
Pictures, copies of, to be made, but not to be bought, [90.]
" dealers, and old pictures, [85.]
" destruction of, [69.]
" galleries, in all great cities, [91.]
" " their supervision and curators, [93.]
" pictorial method of education, [106 seq.]
" price of, [101], [38.]
Pictures, price of, continued:—
" " effect of high prices on artists and on art, [97 seq.]
" " by living artists, shows not value, but demand, [101.]
" " by dead and living masters, [103.]
" " modern prices, [38.]
" " of oil and water-colour, [102 n.]
" " to be limited but not too cheap, [66], [95-6.]
" private possession of, its value, [93-4.]
" purchase of, private buyers to buy the works of living artists, the public those of dead, [103], [94], [5.]
" " for ostentation, [101.]
" " the government to buy great works, [89.]
" restoration of, notes of, to be kept for reference, [94 n.]
" " in Italy, [85.]
" sale of a picture, its politico-economical effect, [132 n.]
" studies for, tracings, and copies of, to be kept, [90 seq.]
Pisa, architecture at, [76.]
" Campo Santo, The, [82.]
Plate, changes of fashion in, deplored, [45.]
" gold and silver to be gradually accumulated, not melted down and remodelled, [46.]
Ploughing, boys to learn, [128.]
Political economists, their thrift, [89.]
" Economy, modern books on, [1857 pref.]
" " the aim of true, [145.]
" " is citizen's economy, [1857 pref.]
" " definition and true meaning of, [132 n.]
" " first principles of, simple but misunderstood, [1857 pref.]
" " its questions to be dealt with one by one, [38.]
" " study of, to be accurate, if not deep, [1857 pref.]
" " secrecy in trade bad, [110 seq.]
" " See s. Economy.
Politics, English, [82.]
" European, 1848, 1857, [80.]
" See s. Conservatism, Liberalism.
Poor, the, their right to State education and support, [127.]
Poor, the, continued;—
" are kept at the expense of the rich, [127 n.]
" to be taken care of, [118.]
Poverty, classical writers on, [2.]
" mediæval view of, [4.]
" modern contempt for, just and right, [1 seq.]
Posterity, thought for, [72.]
Praise, only the young can enjoy, for the old are above it, if they deserve it, [26.]
Pride, as a motive of expenditure, [79.]
Prize-giving, a bad thing in education, [135.]
" its true value and meaning, [166.]
Productive and unproductive transactions, [132 n.]
Progress, modern, since Edward I., [1857 pref.]
Property, division of, into things producing (a) life, (b) the objects of life, [144 seq.]
" the right of, to be acknowledged, [142.]
Providence, notion of a special, [133.]
Public, the, favour of, [137.]
" great men and, [137.]
" impatient of what it cannot understand, [140-1.]
Punishment, the rationale of human, [123.]
Purse-pride, modern and ancient, [2.]
Railway speed, [86.]
Raphael's Disputation, [147.]
Religion, national, its beauty, pref.
Rembrandt's "spotted shell" as a model in etching, [164.]
Renaissance architecture at Verona, [76.]
Restraint, the law of life, [16.]
Reverence for art, a test of art power, [167.]
Reynolds, Sir J., learns much from Italian art, [82.]
" portraits of, models of art, [169.]
Rich, the duty of the strong and, [118.]
Riding, as part of education, [128.]
Rowing, as part of education, [128.]
St. Albans, Duke of, reads paper for author at Mansfield, [166 n.]
St. Louis' chapel at Carcassonne, painting, [86.]
Salvation, not to be limited to a class, [182.]
School Board, the, [177.]
Schools of art, bare schoolrooms do not fix the attention, [105.]
" " decoration of, reasons for, [104.]
" " proposals for, [132.]
Science, controversy in, too much nowadays, [175.]
" education in, [128.]
" the bridal city of, [175.]
Selection, Natural, and Social Policy, paper by author, [175.]
Shakespeare's Cliff, [89.]
Siena, frescoes of Antonio Lorenzetti, [57.]
Smith, Adam, [1857 pref.]
Soldiers of the ploughshare as well as of the sword, [15.]
Speculation, commercial, [151.]
Spider, web of a, [170.]
Street, Mr., on the Ducal Palace, [141 n.]
Students in art, not to aim at being great masters, [168.]
Surfaces, drawing of round, &c., [161.]
Sympathy, the cleverness of, [170.]
Systems, not easily grasped, [128.]
Taste, defined, [154.]
" education of, [160.]
Tennyson, In Mem. LV. "Of fifty seeds, she often brings but one to bear," [133] (cp. Time and Tide, [67]).
Thought, not to take the place of fact, [141.]
Time, man is the true destroyer, not, [74.]
Times, The, Nov. 23, 1857, referred to, [138 n.]
Tintoret's St. Sebastian (Venice), perishing, [86.]
Titian, eternally right, [157.]
" sketch by (Florence), [164.]
" woodcuts of, [70.]
Tombs, English waste of money on, [78.]
Trade, art-faculty, its employment in design in, [30.]
" freedom from rivalry, healthful, [110 seq.]
" government direction of, [129.]
" guilds, decoration of their buildings, [110 seq.]
Trade, guilds, continued:—
" " under public management, [114.]
" secrecy of, bad, [110 seq.]
" true co-operation in, what, [112.]
" youths to learn some manual, [128.]
Tradesmen, their modern social position wrong, [114.]
Truth, dependent on justice and love, [152.]
Turner, prices of his pictures, when a boy, [98.]
" his want of gentle training, [28.]
Ugliness, is evil, [177.]
Usury, a "mortal sin," [185.]
Utility, not to be the sole object of life, [10.]
Vellum, for water-colour drawing, [43.]
Venice, art of, aided by beautiful dress, [54.]
" Ducal Palace, chronology of the capital, [141 n.]
Verona, amphitheatre of, [76.]
" battle-fields of, [77.]
" greatest art-treasury in the world, [76 seq.]
" typical of Gothic architecture, [76.]
Veronese, P., eternally right, [157.]
" "Family of Darius," purchased by National Gallery, for £14,000, [55.]
Verrocchio, a goldsmith, [46.]
" master of Leonardo, [46.]
Virtues, the, fresco of, by A. Lorenzetti, at Siena, [57.]
" winged (Siena), ib. seq.
Wages, fixed rate of, advocated, [113], [129.]
Wall-paper, [159.]
Wants, the invention of new, [138.]
War, destruction of works of art by, [75.]
Water-colour drawings, perishable, and why, [42.]
" " to be on vellum, not paper, [43.]
Wealth, author's respect for true, [1.]
" duty and, [119-20.]
" earned and inherited, [143.]
Wealth, continued:—
" freedom of spending, to be allowed, [142.]
" how gained, [117.]
" means well-being, [147.]
" mediæval view of, [4.]
" modern honour paid to, [1], [2.]
" power of, [4.]
" principles of, [114 seq.]
" works of art, how far they are, [132 n.]
Wealthy, the, "pilots of the State," [119], [142.]
" " claims of the poor on, [143.]
" " way in which they should spend their money, [143.]
Wisdom, preciousness of, [174.]
Women, education of, drawing, [158-9.]
" J. S. Mill on the position of, [180.]
Woodcuts, cheap and nasty, [40.]
Wordsworth's essay on the Poor Law Amendment Bill, [16 n.]
Workhouses, to be worthy their name, [114.]
Working-men's College, drawing at the, [156.]
Youth, encouragement good for, [26 seq.]
" of a nation, to be guarded, [134.]
" work of a, necessarily imperfect, but blameable, if bold or slovenly, [25.]