‘Unto This Last’, I translated it later into Gujarati entitling it ‘Sarvodaya’ (the welfare of all). Ghandi, Beveriidge, William Morris, Proust and Tolsty were all deeply influenced by him just to name a few. His influence is huge though, within art of all types at the time and also in social policy, influencing emerging politicians into the 20th Century. However later in his life also increasingly beset by mental illness he seems not to be able to accommodate new thinking or differing views, see his court case with the artist James Whistler . He starts out as an outsider and brave critic by championing a modern way of painting through his support of William Turner for example. The baby steps of Science in Geology and Biology blew away comfortable religious views. Ruskin comes from a world so different from our own now, changing from an agrarian class based society to one where market capitalism and the industrial revolution were starting to change the world.
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