The book A Joy for Ever was written by author Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Here you can read free online of A Joy for Ever book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Joy for Ever a good or bad book?
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182. I am content here to leave under the scrutiny of the evening mygeneral statement, that as human development, when moral, is withspecial effort in a given direction, so, when moral, it is with specialeffort in favour of a limited class; but I yet trespass for a fewmoments on your patience in order to note that the acceptance of thissecond principle still leaves it debatable to what point the disfavourof the reprobate class, or the privileges of the elect, may advisablyextend. For I cannot b...ut feel for my own part as if the daily bread ofmoral instruction might at least be so widely broken among the multitudeas to preserve them from utter destitution and pauperism in virtue; andthat even the simplest and lowest of the rabble should not be soabsolutely sons of perdition, but that each might say for himself, --"Formy part--no offence to the General, or any man of quality--I hope to besaved. " Whereas it is, on the contrary, implied by the habitualexpressions of the wisest aristocrats, that the completely developedpersons whose Justice and Fortitude--poles to the Cardinal points ofvirtue--are marked as their sufficient characteristics by the greatRoman moralist in his phrase, "Justus, et tenax propositi, " will in thecourse of nature be opposed by a civic ardour, not merely of theinnocent and ignorant, but of persons developed in a contrary directionto that which I have ventured to call "moral, " and therefore not merelyincapable of desiring or applauding what is right, but in an evilharmony, _prava jubentium_, clamorously demanding what is wrong.
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