A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)

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Ruskin John. A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)

PREFACE TO THE RE-ISSUE OF 1880

PREFACE TO THE 1857 EDITION

LECTURE I

LECTURE II

ADDENDA

SUPPLEMENTARY ADDITIONAL PAPERS

EDUCATION IN ART

REMARKS ADDRESSED

SOCIAL POLICY

INDEX

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The greater part of the following treatise remains in the exact form in which it was read at Manchester; but the more familiar passages of it, which were trusted to extempore delivery, have been written with greater explicitness and fulness than I could give them in speaking; and a considerable number of notes are added, to explain the points which could not be sufficiently considered in the time I had at my disposal in the lecture room.

Some apology may be thought due to the reader, for an endeavour to engage his attention on a subject of which no profound study seems compatible with the work in which I am usually employed. But profound study is not, in this case, necessary either to writer or readers, while accurate study, up to a certain point, is necessary for us all. Political economy means, in plain English, nothing more than "citizen's economy"; and its first principles ought, therefore, to be understood by all who mean to take the responsibility of citizens, as those of household economy by all who take the responsibility of householders. Nor are its first principles in the least obscure: they are, many of them, disagreeable in their practical requirements, and people in general pretend that they cannot understand, because they are unwilling to obey them: or rather, by habitual disobedience, destroy their capacity of understanding them. But there is not one of the really great principles of the science which is either obscure or disputable,—which might not be taught to a youth as soon as he can be trusted with an annual allowance, or to a young lady as soon as she is of age to be taken into counsel by the housekeeper.

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Thirdly, To lasting work.

I shall briefly touch on the first two, for I want to arrest your attention on the last.

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