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John Ruskin. The Two Paths
The Two Paths
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE TWO PATHS
BEING
LECTURE I. — THE DETERIORATIVE POWER OF CONVENTIONAL ART OVER NATIONS
LECTURE II. — THE UNITY OF ART
Part of an Address delivered at Manchester, 14th March, 1859
LECTURE III. — MODERN MANUFACTURE AND DESIGN
A Lecture delivered at Bradford, March, 1859
LECTURE IV. — INFLUENCE OF IMAGINATION IN ARCHITECTURE
LECTURE V. — THE WORK OF IRON, IN NATURE, ART, AND POLICY
A Lecture Delivered at Tunbridge Wells, February, 1858
APPENDICES
APPENDIX I
RIGHT AND WRONG
APPENDIX II
REYNOLDS' DISAPPOINTMENT
APPENDIX III
CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
APPENDIX IV
SUBTLETY OF HAND
APPENDIX V
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John Ruskin
Published by Good Press, 2019
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And you would conclude this with perfect truth. Let me repeat the assertion distinctly and solemnly, as the first that I am permitted to make in this building, devoted in a way so new and so admirable to the service of the art-students of England—Wherever art is practised for its own sake, and the delight of the workman is in what he does and produces, instead of what he interprets or exhibits—there art has an influence of the most fatal kind on brain and heart, and it issues, if long so pursued, in the destruction both of intellectual power and moral principal; whereas art, devoted humbly and self- forgetfully to the clear statement and record of the facts of the universe, is always helpful and beneficent to mankind, full of comfort, strength, and salvation.
Now, when you were once well assured of this, you might logically infer another thing, namely, that when Art was occupied in the function in which she was serviceable, she would herself be strengthened by the service, and when she was doing what Providence without doubt intended her to do, she would gain in vitality and dignity just as she advanced in usefulness. On the other hand, you might gather, that when her agency was distorted to the deception or degradation of mankind, she would herself be equally misled and degraded—that she would be checked in advance, or precipitated in decline.
