FOOTNOTES:
[126] There were two editions of this pamphlet. The first was entitled "First Notes on the General Principles of Employment for the Destitute and Criminal Classes. By John Ruskin, A.M. For private circulation only. 1868" (pp. 11, including the title-page. London: Strangeways & Walden, printers, Castle Street, Leicester Square). Mr. Ruskin enclosed the second edition to the Daily Telegraph, where almost the whole of the pamphlet was reprinted. The differences between the two editions consisted only in one or two additions in the second (see below, pages 197 and 202, notes).
[127] The reform bill of 1867. The late parliament had been dissolved on November 11, and the new one had just sat (December 10, 1868).
[128] The Daily Telegraph reprinted the pamphlet from this point to the end.
[129] In order fully to utilize this natural power, we only require machinery to turn the variable into a constant velocity—no insurmountable difficulty.[131]
[130] Here the first edition of the pamphlet ends; the remaining sentences being contained in the second edition only.
[131] This note was not contained in the first edition of the pamphlet, and was not reprinted by the Daily Telegraph.
[From "The Y. M. A. Magazine," conducted by the Young Men's Association, Clapham Congregational Church. September, 1879. Vol. iii., No. 12, p. 242.]
BLINDNESS AND SIGHT.[132]
Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire,
18th July, 1879.
My dear Sir: The reason I never answered was—I now find—the difficulty of explaining my fixed principle never to join in any invalid charities. All the foolish world is ready to help in them; and will spend large incomes in trying to make idiots think, and the blind read, but will leave the noblest intellects to go to the Devil, and the brightest eyes to remain spiritually blind forever! All my work is to help those who have eyes and see not.
Ever faithfully yours, J. Ruskin.
Thos. Pocock, Esq.
I must add that, to my mind, the prefix of "Protestant" to your society's name indicates far stonier blindness than any it will relieve.