The complete works . ations. PR5250 me Ruskin, John The complete works PLEASE DO NOT REMOVECARDS OR SLIPS FROM THIS POCKET ERINDALE COLLEGE LIBRARY i i. HOPE. Drawn thus by Giotto in the Chapel of the Arena at Padua. FORS CLAVIGERA. LETTER I. Denmark Hill, « Feiends, 1** January, 1871. We begin to-day another group of ten years, not inhappy circumstances. Although, for the time, exemptedfrom the direct calamities which have fallen on neighbor-ing states, believe me, we have not escaped them because ofour better deservings, nor by our better wisdom; but onlyfor one or two bad reason
The complete works . ations. PR5250 me Ruskin, John The complete works PLEASE DO NOT REMOVECARDS OR SLIPS FROM THIS POCKET ERINDALE COLLEGE LIBRARY i i. HOPE. Drawn thus by Giotto in the Chapel of the Arena at Padua. FORS CLAVIGERA. LETTER I. Denmark Hill, « Feiends, 1** January, 1871. We begin to-day another group of ten years, not inhappy circumstances. Although, for the time, exemptedfrom the direct calamities which have fallen on neighbor-ing states, believe me, we have not escaped them because ofour better deservings, nor by our better wisdom; but onlyfor one or two bad reasons, or for both: either that we havenot sense enough to determine in a great national quarrelwhich side is right, or that we have not courage to defendthe right, when we have discerned it. I believe that both these bad reasons exist in full force;that our own political divisions prevent us from understand-ing the laws of international justice; and that, even if wedid, we should not dare to defend, perhaps not even to assertthem, being on this first of January, 1871, in much bodilyfear; that is to say, afraid of the Russians; afraid of thePrussians; afraid of
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