. The works of John Ruskin . 6 X o .Bt <: o a o <! m Bi ts a H EkO AUTHORS PREFACE 471 and dissolving fallacy. But there is a deeper reason thanany such accidental ones for the quality of this book. Sincethe letters cost me, as aforesaid, much trouble; since theyinterrupted me in pleasant work which was usually liableto take harm by interruption; and since they were likelyalmost, in the degree of their force, to be refused by theeditors of the adverse journals, I never was tempted intowriting a word for the public press, unless concerningmatters which I had much at heart. And the issue i
. The works of John Ruskin . 6 X o .Bt <: o a o <! m Bi ts a H EkO AUTHORS PREFACE 471 and dissolving fallacy. But there is a deeper reason thanany such accidental ones for the quality of this book. Sincethe letters cost me, as aforesaid, much trouble; since theyinterrupted me in pleasant work which was usually liableto take harm by interruption; and since they were likelyalmost, in the degree of their force, to be refused by theeditors of the adverse journals, I never was tempted intowriting a word for the public press, unless concerningmatters which I had much at heart. And the issue is,therefore, that the two following volumes contain verynearly the indices of everything I hav^e deeply cared forduring the last forty years; while not a few of their politicalnotices relate to events of more profound historical import-ance than any others that have occurred during the periodthey cover; and it has not been an uneventful one. Nor have the events been without gravity; the greater,because they have all been inc
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