 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; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of...  Self Culture - Stran 1451900Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1901 - 538 strani
...the end both lives will reach their perfection together, when each man, to adopt Buskin's words, " having perfected the functions of his own life to...influence, both personal and by means of his possessions, on the lives of others;"i or in the yet; fuller teaching of St. Paul, when "the man of God," disciplined... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - 1901 - 512 strani
...the end both livas will reach their perfection together, when each man, to adopt Ruskin's words, ' having perfected the functions of his own life to...influence, both personal and by means of his possessions, on the lives of others1 ; ' or in the yet fuller teaching of St Paul, wheu ' the man of GOD,' disciplined... | |
 | 1901 - 712 strani
...man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest influence, both personal and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others." "It is the supreme end of civilization to produce manhood and maintain it in happiness." Ruskin, though... | |
 | John Lancaster Spalding - 1902 - 242 strani
...best inspired teachers of our age: " There is no wealth but life — life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is...means of his possessions, over the lives of others." There is not now, nor has there ever been, a civilized people. Ignorance, sin, depravity, injustice,... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1902 - 316 strani
...is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings ; that man is the richest who, having perfected the functions of his...and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.1 Other symbols have been given often to show the evanescence and slightness of our lives —... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1903 - 304 strani
...WHAT is WEALTH? RUSKIN'S DEFINITIONS. "There is no Wealth but Life." "Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is...of his possessions, over the lives of others."— "Unto this Last." " The study of Wealth is a province of natural science : — it deals with the essential... | |
 | Washington Gladden - 1903 - 326 strani
...the richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest influence, both personal and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others. A strange political economy ; " — so 1 John Ruskin, Social Reformer, p. 125. its author himself muses... | |
 | June Richardson Lucas - 1904 - 166 strani
...How that prophet of the nineteenth century was sneered at by the economist for his assertion that " that country is the richest which nourishes the greatest...means of his possessions, over the lives of others." l Yet who can say that the important change taking place in the economic treatment of life is not the... | |
 | 1905 - 680 strani
...John Ruskin are the everlasting truth : "There is no wealth but life— life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is...means of his possessions, over the lives of others." We have here, as you see, the Christian conception — the very word of the Prince of life, of Him... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 726 strani
...stated. THERE is NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration.2 That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest...means of his possessions, over the lives of others. A strange political economy ; the only one, nevertheless, that ever was or can be : all political economy... | |
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