 A truly valuable or availing thing is that which leads to life with its whole strength. In proportion as it does not lead to life, or as its strength is broken, it is less valuable ; in proportion as it leads away from life, it is tinvaluable or malignant.  Unto This Last - Page 55by John Ruskin - 2006 - 104 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Charles Ryle Fay - Great Britain - 1928 - 490 pages
...Cornhill and Fraser's Magazine respectively. We find his arguments and proposals very acceptable. ' A truly valuable or availing thing is that which leads to life with its whole strength.' 1 Again, ' It is, therefore, the manner and issue of consumption which are the real tests of production.'... | |
 | Claudia C. Klaver - Business & Economics - 2003 - 264 pages
...classical educations, Ruskin writes: " Valor, from valere, to be well or strong . . . ;—strong, in life (if a man), or valiant; strong for life (if a...valuable. To be Valuable,' therefore, is to 'avail toward life.' A truly valuable or availing thing is that which leads to life with its whole strength"... | |
 | Catherine Gallagher - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 236 pages
...from "Valor from valere, to be well, or strong . . . strong in life (if a man), or valiant; strongs/or life (if a thing), or valuable. To be 'valuable,' therefore, is to 'avail towards life' " (168). Ruskin faults the political economists for calculating the values of commodities without regard... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - Unitarianism - 1885 - 592 pages
...valuable in actual lifegiving power. " Value, valor, valere, to be well or strong, is to avail toward life. A truly valuable, or availing, thing is that which leads to life with its whole strength." " Mistaken again," said the capitalist. " Our mills and factories are set up to make money or whatever... | |
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