John Ruskin

The Ethics of the Dust John Ruskin

Excerpt from The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation
III. The examination of the roots of Moral Power, pp. 90 - 92, is a summary of what is afterwards developed with utmost care in my inaugural lecture at Oxford on the rela tion of Art to Morals compare in that lecture, 83-85, with the sentence in p. 91 of this book, Nothing is ever done so as really to please our Father, unless we would also have done it, though we had had no Father to know of it.
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