THERE is NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of... Self Culture - Page 1451900Full view - About this book
| John Ruskin - 1856 - 426 pages
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| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1860 - 858 pages
...leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE is-ко WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is...means of his possessions, over the lives of others. A strange political economy ; the only one, nevertheless, that ever was or can be: all political economy... | |
| Literature - 1861 - 878 pages
...this one great fact clearly stated. TIIBRE is NO WEALTH ист LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is...means of his possessions, over the lives of others. A strange political economy; the only one, nevertheless, that ever was or can be : all political economy... | |
| Great Britain - 1871 - 970 pages
...number of noble and happy beings ; that man is the richest who, baring perfected the functions of hie own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful...influence, both personal and by means of his possessions, отег the lire« of others." — Лон.ч BUSKIN. HAS MAN DEVELOPED FEOM THE SAVAGE STATE? NEGATIVE... | |
| John Ruskin - Economics - 1872 - 156 pages
...and happy. human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own lift ; to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence,...means of his possessions, over the lives of others. • A strange political economy; the only one, nevertheless, that ever was or can be: all political... | |
| John Ruskin - Economics - 1877 - 216 pages
...leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE is NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is...means of his possessions, over the lives of others. A strange political economy; the only one, nevertheless, that ever was or can be: all political economy... | |
| Ernest Faulkner Brown - 1881 - 86 pages
...is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings : that man is the richest who, having perfected the functions of his...means of his possessions, over the lives of others." And perhaps he does not advance thus far in his self-development without becoming dimly conscious that... | |
| William Smart - 1883 - 124 pages
...economical faith is given in the words : — " There is no Wealth but Life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is...his possessions, over the lives of others." * The point at issue might be put thus. Ruskin does not object to Political Economy, so long as it is confessed... | |
| Henry William Little - 1884 - 166 pages
...is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings ; and that LVI. man is richest who, having perfected the functions...means of his possessions, over the lives of others. (Raskin.) LVIII. In a review of " Study and Stimulants," in the British Medical Journal, the Editor... | |
| Christianity - 1885 - 132 pages
...To quote again the words of Mr Ruskin, " There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is...means of his possessions, over the lives of others." In the second place society must rest in its industrial as well as other relations upon a moral and... | |
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