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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Page 17
... respects the qualities of mind involved, and far more important in result to you personally, than the difference ... respecting all labour is, that it should be paid at a fixed rate, but the good workman employed, and the bad workman ...
... respects the qualities of mind involved, and far more important in result to you personally, than the difference ... respecting all labour is, that it should be paid at a fixed rate, but the good workman employed, and the bad workman ...
Page 21
... respect we pay to the lawyer and physician, founded ultimately on their self-sacrifice. Whatever the learning or acuteness of a great lawyer, our chief respect for him depends on our belief that, set in a judge's seat, he will strive to ...
... respect we pay to the lawyer and physician, founded ultimately on their self-sacrifice. Whatever the learning or acuteness of a great lawyer, our chief respect for him depends on our belief that, set in a judge's seat, he will strive to ...
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... respects clergymen. No goodness of disposition will excuse want of science in a physician, or of shrewdness in an advocate; but a clergyman, even though his power of intellect be small, is respected on the presumed ground of his ...
... respects clergymen. No goodness of disposition will excuse want of science in a physician, or of shrewdness in an advocate; but a clergyman, even though his power of intellect be small, is respected on the presumed ground of his ...
Page 24
... functions of a merchant with respect to other people. I should like the reader to be very clear about this. Five great intellectual professions, relating to daily necessities of life, have hitherto existed — three exist necessarily, 24.
... functions of a merchant with respect to other people. I should like the reader to be very clear about this. Five great intellectual professions, relating to daily necessities of life, have hitherto existed — three exist necessarily, 24.
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... respecting matters political being false in premises, absurd in deduction, and impossible in practice, consistently ... Respecting the modes and forms of destruction to which they lead, and, on the other hand, respecting the farther ...
... respecting matters political being false in premises, absurd in deduction, and impossible in practice, consistently ... Respecting the modes and forms of destruction to which they lead, and, on the other hand, respecting the farther ...
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