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.
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.