Unto This LastUnto This Last is an essay on economy by John Ruskin, critical of the 18th and 19th century capitalist economists. When first published as four magazine articles in 1860 they were, in the words of Ruskin himself, "very violently criticized" and the publisher was forced to halt publication. But Ruskin persevered and released the four articles in this book form in 1862. Gandhi read Unto This Last in 1904 and it had a huge impact on his social and economic philosophy, with Gandhi making an immediate decision to live according to Ruskin's teachings. |
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... affection. Of course, as in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. "The social affections," says the economist, "are accidental and ...
... affection. Of course, as in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. "The social affections," says the economist, "are accidental and ...
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John Ruskin. to introduce as much of the disturbing affectionate element as he chooses, and to determine for himself the result on the new conditions supposed." This would be a perfectly logical and successful method of analysis, if the ...
John Ruskin. to introduce as much of the disturbing affectionate element as he chooses, and to determine for himself the result on the new conditions supposed." This would be a perfectly logical and successful method of analysis, if the ...
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... affection, — such affection as one man owes to another. All right relations between master and operative, and all their best interests, ultimately depend on these. We shall find the best and simplest illustration of the relations of ...
... affection, — such affection as one man owes to another. All right relations between master and operative, and all their best interests, ultimately depend on these. We shall find the best and simplest illustration of the relations of ...
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... affections. It may indeed happen, and does happen often, that if the master is a man of sense ad energy, a large ... affection for each other; and that if the master, instead of endeavouring to get as much work as possible from the ...
... affections. It may indeed happen, and does happen often, that if the master is a man of sense ad energy, a large ... affection for each other; and that if the master, instead of endeavouring to get as much work as possible from the ...
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... affections wholly as a motive power; not at all as things in themselves desirable or noble, or in any other way abstractedly good. I look at them simply as an anomalous force, rendering every one of the ordinary political economist's ...
... affections wholly as a motive power; not at all as things in themselves desirable or noble, or in any other way abstractedly good. I look at them simply as an anomalous force, rendering every one of the ordinary political economist's ...
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