Selections From the Works of John Ruskin

234

See Genesis ii, 15, and the opening lines of the first selection in this volume.

235

Joshua ix, 21.

236

In his Discourses on Art. Cf. pp. 24 ff. above.

237

See The Two Paths, §§ 28 et seq. [Ruskin.]

238

References mainly to the Irish Land Question, on which Ruskin agreed with Mill and Gladstone in advocating the establishment of a peasant-proprietorship in Ireland.

239

Genesis iii, 19.

240

Ecclesiastes ix, 10.

241

Hebrews xi, 4.

242

During the famine in the Indian province of Orissa.

243

Athena, goddess of weaving.

244

Proverbs xxxi, 19-22, 24.

245

Jeremiah xxxviii, 11.

246

Matthew xxv, 43.

247

Matthew xxv, 43.

248

Revelation vi, 13.

249

Jeremiah xi, 8.

250

James iv, 14.

251

Psalms xxxix, 6 and Revelation xiv, 11.

252

Ecclesiastes ix, 10.

253

Psalms civ, 4.

254

Revelation i, 7.

255

Daniel vii, 10.

256

Dies Iræ, the name generally given (from the opening words) to the most famous of the mediæval hymns, usually ascribed to the Franciscan Thomas of Celano (died c. 1255). It is composed in triplets of rhyming trochaic tetrameters, and describes the Last Judgment in language of magnificent grandeur, passing into a plaintive plea for the souls of the dead.

257

Acts v, 1, 2.

258

Galatians v. 24.

259

Isaiah lviii, 7.

260

2 Thessalonians iii, 10.

261

Luke xviii, 11.

262

1 Corinthians xiii, 13.