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In his ever- forcible way he told peasants that their moral defects were openly displayed by their cottage walls and chimneys; small towns, that their monumented squares were invisible behind the heaps of waste paper and broken bottles in their back alleys; "restorers" of ancient architecture, that they were vandals more culpable than Henry VIII or the Roundheads; great and prosperous merchants, that they were really mere gamblers; loyal soldiers, that they existed chiefly to destroy surplus po...pula- tion; the government, that it failed utterly to appre- NINETEENTH CENTURY ESSAYISTS 163 date its true function; political economists, that their talk of "supply and demand, " "wealth, " labor, capital, and so on, was but purposeless pother. He also gave money broadcast to young authors and artists few of whom came to anything. And he tried experiments in manufacturing, in farming, and in education most of which were ludicrous and speedy failures. Not a knave, perhaps, this fellow Ruskin; but surely a fool!
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