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First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, "Unto this Last" is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his ideas had... read more
First Sentence
UNTO THIS LAST: Among the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious - certainly the least creditable - is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Clive Wilmer
Chronology
Further Reading
1. The King of the Golden River
2. From The Stones of Venice, Volume II: The Nature of Gothic
3. From The Two Paths: The Work of Iron, in Nature, Art, and Policy
4. From Modern Painters, Volume V: The Two Boyhoods
5. UNTO THIS LAST:
Preface
Essay I: The Roots of Honour
Essay II: The Veins of Wealth
Essay III: Qui Judicatis Terram
Essay IV: Ad Valorem
6. From The Crown of Wild Olive: Traffic
7. From Sesame and Lilies: Of Kings' Treasuries
8. From Fors Clavigera:
a) Letter 7: Charitas
b) Letter 10: The Baron's Gate
Notes
Authors & Contributors
- John Ruskin (Author)
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