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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... soldiers for the colonel. Not so easy to imagine an enthusiastic affection among cotton-spinners for the proprietor of ... soldier is engaged at a definite rate of wages, for a definite period; but a workman at a rate of wages variable ...
... soldiers for the colonel. Not so easy to imagine an enthusiastic affection among cotton-spinners for the proprietor of ... soldier is engaged at a definite rate of wages, for a definite period; but a workman at a rate of wages variable ...
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... soldiers in a crack regiment. The first question is, I say, how far it may be possible to fix the rate of wages, irrespectively of the demand for labour. Perhaps one of the most curious facts in the history of human error is the denial ...
... soldiers in a crack regiment. The first question is, I say, how far it may be possible to fix the rate of wages, irrespectively of the demand for labour. Perhaps one of the most curious facts in the history of human error is the denial ...
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... soldier. And this is right. For the soldier's trade, verily and essentially, is not slaying, but being slain. This, without well knowing its own meaning, the world honours it for. A bravo's trade 20.
... soldier. And this is right. For the soldier's trade, verily and essentially, is not slaying, but being slain. This, without well knowing its own meaning, the world honours it for. A bravo's trade 20.
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