 AMONG the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious — certainly the least creditable — is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the...  Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology - Page 181by John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 593 pagesFull view - About this book
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1897 - 584 pages
...he has written. He calls the science of political economy, "soi-disant," based as he says it is, " on the idea that an advantageous code of social action...irrespectively of the influence of social affection." On this he observes, " I neither impugn nor doubt the conclusions of the science, if its terms are... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - English literature - 1899 - 338 pages
...passionate poetry and fiction ; but no one before Ruskin had set himself to test by careful analysis " the idea that an advantageous code of social action...irrespectively of the influence of social affection." His essays were begun in 1860 and it would not be easy to find any serious book in that sense of an... | |
 | 1899 - 948 pages
...EMPLOYED. By WILLIAM CLARKE, MA " A MONG the delusions," writes Mr. /-\ Ruskin in "Unto this Last," "which •^ •*• at different periods have possessed...irrespectively of the influence of social affection." The " cocksuredness " of political economy has much declined since these words were penned, and it... | |
 | John Lionel Tayler - Evolution - 1904 - 366 pages
...pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.' THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY : Autobiography. ' Among the delusions which at different periods have...irrespectively of the influence of social affection.' — JOHN BUSKIN : Unto This Last. ' . . . . that which is surely coming, the new co-operative art of... | |
 | John Lionel Tayler - Social change - 1904 - 372 pages
...pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.' THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY : Autobiography. ' Among the delusions which at different periods have...irrespectively of the influence of social affection.' — JOHN BUSKIN : Unto This Last. ' . . . . that which is surely coming, the new co-operative art of... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 714 pages
...Introduction, p. xlvii., and the note there added.] "UNTO THIS LAST" ESSAY I THE ROOTS OF HONOUR 1. AMONG the delusions which at different periods have...— certainly the least creditable — is the modern soi-ctisant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of-- social action... | |
 | John Ruskin - Economics - 1905 - 736 pages
...Introduction, p. \ivii,, and tS* note there added.] "UNTO THIS LAST" ESSAY I THE ROOTS OF HONOUR 1. AMONG the delusions which at different periods have...— certainly the least creditable — is the modern sai-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 726 pages
...Sir John and Lady Simon : see Prceterita, ii. § *">',• and above, Introduction, pp. xxvii., Hi.] " Among the delusions which at different periods have...curious — certainly the least creditable — is the modem soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 736 pages
...human race, perhaps the most curious — certainly the least creditable — is the modern sai-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that...irrespectively of the influence of social affection." Look also at the definition of skill, p. 87. 1 "Under the term 'skill' I mean to include the united... | |
 | John Ruskin - Labor - 1907 - 460 pages
...Last," in the year 1862 — which it has thus taken five years to get half way into the public's head. " Among the delusions which at different periods have...irrespectively of the influence of social affection." Look also at the definition of skill, § 49 n. " Under the term ' skill ' I mean to include the united... | |
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