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Unto This Last - Page 72
by John Ruskin - 2006 - 104 pages
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The World's Great Sermons, Volume 8

Grenville Kleiser - Sermons - 1908 - 264 pages
...Those strong words of John Ruskin are the everlasting truth : ' ' There is no wealth but life — lif e including all its powers of love, of joy and of admiration....means of his possessions, over the lives of others. ' ' We have here, as you see, the Christian conception — the very word of the Prince of Life, of...
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Unfinished Man: A Scientific Analysis of the Psychopath Or Human Degenerate

Albert Wilson - Crime - 1910 - 580 pages
...and stress, should finally cross the bar and abide in calm. Ruskin sums up the situation thus 1 : " There is no wealth but Life. Life including all its...means of his possessions, over the lives of others. " And if, on due and honest thought over these things, it seems that the kind of existence to which...
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Saint George, Volume 6

John Howard Whitehouse, Richard Warwick Bond, John Bryan Booth - Art - 1903 - 378 pages
...ask. " There is no Wealth but Life," says Ruskin. -" Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes...means of his possessions, over the lives of others." Do these words sound only a grim mockery applied to those who are trying to live by agriculture in...
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Ruskin and His Circle

Ada Earland - Authors, English - 1910 - 404 pages
...THERE 1s NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. 305 20 That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest...means of his possessions, over the lives of others." l Acting on this belief, he next proceeded to investigate the causes underlying various evils which...
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The Life of John Ruskin, Volume 2

Sir Edward Tyas Cook - Art critics - 1911 - 644 pages
...expends in obtaining and employing means of life ; wise consumption is the crown of production : — " THERE is NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its...be : all political economy founded on selfinterest being but the fulfilment of that which once brought schism into the Policy of angels, and ruin into...
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The Life of John Ruskin, Volume 2

Sir Edward Tyas Cook - 1911 - 650 pages
...WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is tie richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble...be : all political economy founded on selfinterest being but the fulfilment of that which once brought schism into the Policy of angels, and ruin into...
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The Art of Education

Ira Woods Howerth - Art - 1912 - 272 pages
...cultivated is wealth of character. There is deep significance in the well-known passage from Ruskin. "There is no wealth but life. Life, including all...means of his possessions, over the lives of others." In the sense in which Ruskin employs the term, wealth may be accumulated without impoverishing any...
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Some Social and Political Pioneers of the Nineteenth Century

Ramsden Balmforth - Great Britain - 1912 - 252 pages
...action, then we may be possessed of but a modest material competence, and still be richer than Midas. " That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest...means of his possessions, over the lives of others." Such is the bare and inadequate outline of Ruskin's philosophy of Life which the exigencies of space...
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Socialism and the Ethics of Jesus

Henry Clay Vedder - Christian sociology - 1912 - 560 pages
...wealth but life — life, including all its powers of love, of joy, of admiration. That country is richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble...means of his possessions, over the lives of others." In other words, economics being concerned with man and his conduct must be an ethical science, and...
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The Twentieth Century Magazine, Volume 5

Benjamin Orange Flower - Periodicals - 1912 - 630 pages
...until all begin really to live. The nomenclature of political economy, then, however adequate it may be of noble and happy human beings: that man is richest...means of his possessions, over the lives of others." — "Unto This Last," section 77. to the needs of the special science of wealth, is not adapted, with...
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