 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...  Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology - Page 188by John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 593 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - Church and social problems - 1901 - 512 pages
...should be used for social and not simply for individual gain. "There is," it has been most truly said, "no " wealth but life. Life, including all its powers " of love, of joy, of admiration. That country is " the richest which nourishes the greatest number " of noble and happy... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - Death - 1902 - 316 pages
...age insoluble, pass'd on, To ours to-day — and we pass on the same.2 JOHN RUSKIN . . (1819-1900) THERE is no wealth but life. Life, including all its...number of noble and happy human beings ; that man is the richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - Authors, English - 1902 - 238 pages
...thief, and the entirely merciful, just, and godly person." And the whole closes with the words : " There is no wealth but Life — Life, including all...greatest number of noble and happy human beings." That is the Political Economy of John Ruskin; in other words, the conditions producing material wealth are... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - Art critics - 1902 - 234 pages
...thief, and the entirely merciful, just, and godly person." j_And the whole closes with the words :1" There is no wealth but Life — Life, including all...greatest number of noble and happy / human beings." J That is the Political Economy of John Euskin ; in other words, the conditions producing material... | |
 | New England - 1902 - 874 pages
...things I have ever written," namely, four essays entitled "Unto this Last." His political economy was: "There is no wealth but Life — Life including all...greatest number of noble and happy human beings." If it were possible to quote more from this delightful biography it would show how "all these glancings... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 708 pages
...for control. John Ruskin, that great philosopher of the spirit if not of the form, has well said that "there is no wealth but life — life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration." "Whatsoever ye do to the least of these ye do it unto me" is not limited to cups of water. Socrates,... | |
 | Carroll Davidson Wright - Christian sociology - 1902 - 226 pages
...personal and by means of his accumulative wealth, over the lives of others ; and, again, that nation is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. J All this may seem to be *Anonymous.. t Unto Thin Last. t Cf. Ibid. strange political economy ; but... | |
 | Carroll Davidson Wright - Christian sociology - 1902 - 224 pages
...personal and by means of his accumulative wealth, over the lives of others ; and, again, that nation is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.J All this may seem to be *Anonymous. t Unto This Last. J Cf . Ibid. strange political economy... | |
 | Washington Gladden - Biography - 1903 - 326 pages
...; to leave them out is to vitiate all your reasoning. His main thesis, perhaps, is in the words : " There is no wealth but life, — life, including all...number of noble and happy human beings. That man is the richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 524 pages
...Naturae:" "Deum 1 [See, eg, Unto This Last, § 77, where Ruskin states, as his cardinal principle : "There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration."] VII one sempiternum, immensum, omniscium, omnipotentem, expergefactus transeuntem* vidi, et obstupui."... | |
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