Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne

Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne
Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work

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Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne by John Ruskin

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Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne
Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work

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not lead me to think the elevation itself, when attained, would be conducive to their happiness.

8. The grounds of this opinion I will give you in a future letter; in the present one, I must pass to a more important point--namely, that if this stability of condition be indeed desirable for those in whom existing circumstances might seem to justify discontent, much more must it be good and desirable for those who already possess everything which can be conceived necessary to happiness. It is the merest insolence of selfishness to preach contentment to a laborer who gets thirty shillings a week, while we suppose an active and plotting covetousness to be meritorious in a man who has three thousand a year. In this, as in all other points of mental discipline, it is the duty of the upper classes to set an example to the lower; and to recommend and justify the restraint of the ambition of their inferiors, chiefly by severe and timely limitation of their own. And, without at present inquiring into the greater

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