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June 5, 2021
John Ruskin

He, John Ruskin, finds men, as he believes, slaves to machines, slaves to a heartless system of cut-throat competition, slaves to a joyless routine of mechanical labor, divided and subdivided until there are no entire workmen to be found, but only fractions, “so that all the little pieces of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.”

- D.H.M

From Selections from Ruskin. By Edwin Ginn; with notes and a sketch of Ruskin’s life by D.H.M.............................................................................