FOOTNOTES:
[68] The references in the letter are to an article on Property entitled "What should be done?"
[69] See "Unto this Last," p. 53, note. "The final and best definition of money is that it is a documentary promise ratified and guaranteed by the nation, to give or find a certain quantity of labor on demand." See also "Munera Pulveris," §§ 21-25.
[From "The Christian Life," December 20, 1879.]
ON CO-OPERATION.[70]
Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire.
Dear Mr. Holyoake: I am not able to write you a pretty letter to-day, being sadly tired, but am very heartily glad to be remembered by you. But it utterly silences me that you should waste your time and energy in writing "Histories of Co-operation" anywhere as yet. My dear Sir, you might as well write the history of the yellow spot in an egg—in two volumes. Co-operation is as yet—in any true sense—as impossible as the crystallization of Thames mud.
Ever faithfully yours,
J. Ruskin.