. The works of John Ruskin . ssing,are blessed, and evermore benedicti, and the creatures who,cursing, are cursed, and evermore maledicti, is one goingthrough all humanity; antediluvian in Cain and Abel,diluvian in Ham and Shem. And the question for thepublic of any given period is not whether they are a con-stitutional or unconstitutional vulgus, but whether they area benignant or malignant vulgus.* Sp also, whether it is [See Ruskins references in Fors Clavigera, Letter 42, to the Binnovamento(Gazette of the people of Venice), and his reflections there upon Past and Presentin Venice (Vol. XX
. The works of John Ruskin . ssing,are blessed, and evermore benedicti, and the creatures who,cursing, are cursed, and evermore maledicti, is one goingthrough all humanity; antediluvian in Cain and Abel,diluvian in Ham and Shem. And the question for thepublic of any given period is not whether they are a con-stitutional or unconstitutional vulgus, but whether they area benignant or malignant vulgus.* Sp also, whether it is [See Ruskins references in Fors Clavigera, Letter 42, to the Binnovamento(Gazette of the people of Venice), and his reflections there upon Past and Presentin Venice (Vol. XXVIII. pp. 93 seq.).] * [Ruskin may be thinking either of the English Bertha {Pleasures of England,§ 23) or of the Swiss (ibid., § 101): see Vol. XXXIII. pp. 433, 493. Theformer, the wife of Ethelbert, was, according to tradition, buried in a tomb inSt Martins Church, Canterbury. The tomb of the Swiss Bertha is shown in thechurch at Payerne : see Prceterita, iii. § 40.] [For the reference to Horace, see Vol. XVII. p. 228.]. i^ oa- 3 O O2! > 3 >zo o G 1^
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