Unto This Last and Other Writings

by Ruskin, John; Wilmer, Clive

• ISBN13: 9780140432114
• ISBN10: 0140432116
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-02-04
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

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 a considerable influence on the British socialist movement. And in making his powerful moral and aesthetic case against the dangers of unhindered industrialization he was strangely prophetic. This volume shows the astounding range and depth of Ruskin's work, and in an illuminating introduction the editor reveals the consistency of Ruskin's philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and science could not be separated from questions of morality. In Ruskin's words, 'There is no wealth but life.'

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(32)
Chronology	39	(4)
Further Reading	43	(2)
THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER	45	(110)
From The Stones Of Venice, Volume II	73	(38)
The Nature of Gothic	77	(34)
From The Two Paths	111	(30)
The Work of Iron, in Nature, Art, and Policy	115	(26)
From Modern Painters, Volume V	141	(14)
The Two Boyhoods	144	(11)
UNTO THIS LAST	155	(162)
Preface	161	(6)
Essay I: The Roots of Honour	167	(13)
Essay II: The Veins of Wealth	180	(10)
Essay III: Qui Judicatis Terram	190	(14)
Essay IV: Ad Valorem	204	(25)
From The Crown Of Wild Olive	229	(22)
Traffic	233	(18)
From Sesame And Lilies	251	(38)
Of Kings' Treasuries	255	(34)
From Fors Clavigera	289	(28)
Letter 7: Charitas	294	(12)
Letter 10: The Baron's Gate	306	(11)
Notes	317