The works of John Ruskin Volume 10 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...with altogether; so that though there should still be a trenchant distinction of race between nobles and commoners, there should not, among the latter, be a trenchant distinction of employment, as between idle and working men, or between men of liberal and illiberal professions. All professions should be liberal, and there should be less pride felt in peculiarity of employment, and more in excellence of achievement. And yet more, in each several profession, no master should be too proud to do its hardest work. The painter should grind his own colours; the architect work in the mason's yard with his men; the master-manufacturer be himself a more skilful operative than any man in his mills; and the distinction between 1 These points may be studied in the collection of Venetian glass in the British Museum. It is worth noting in connection with the general argument that the Venetian glass makers had their own Libro d"Oro and ranked with patricians; "noliles gave their daughters in marriage to glass workers, and their children retained their nobility" (see M. A. Wallace-Dunlop's Glats in the Old World, p. 144, and T. Okey's Venice, 1903, p. 213). See Vol. IX. p. 290. 1 See Modern Paintert, vol. iii. ch. iii. § 21, where Invention is laid down as one of the distinguishing characteristics between Higher and Lower Art 3 This was a constant theme with Kuskin in later times. See, for instance, ifunera Puiverin, § 109, and Araira Pentelici, § 97: "Resolve upon this one thing at least, that you will enable yourselves daily to do actually with your hands, something that is useful to mankind." Hence the road-making by his pupils which he superintended at Hincksey during his Professorship at Oxford in 1874-1875. 3 See below, ch. vii...