training in political economy; but in all this neglect of mere fact
the sympathetic reader will discover that contempt for the letter
of the law which was characteristic of the nineteenth-century
prophet,--of Carlyle, of Arnold, and of Emerson,--and which, if it
be blindness, is that produced by an excess of light.


[5] See Harrison's _Life_, p. 111. Cf. the opening of _The Mystery
of Life_.

[6] Part 2, sec. 1, chap. 4.

[7] See p. 159.

[8] _Modern Painters_, vol. 1, part 2, sec. 1, chap. 7.

[9] _Unto This Last_.

[10] See p. 262.




III

RUSKIN'S STYLE


[Sidenote: Sensuousness of his style.]