Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- PART I “UNTO THIS LAST” (1860)
- PART II “MUNERA PULVERIS” (1862, 1863)
- PART III “TIME AND TIDE, BY WEARE AND TYNE” (1867)
- APPENDIX: LETTERS AND PAPERS ON ECONOMIC SUBJECTS 1863–1873
- I LETTERS ON “MUNERA PULVERIS” (1863, 1875, 1877)
- II THE DEPRECIATION OF GOLD (1863)
- III LETTERS ON THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND (1864, 1873)
- IV LETTERS ON WORK AND WAGES TO THE “PALL MALL GAZETTE” (1865)
- V LETTERS ON SERVANTS AND HOUSES TO THE “DAILY TELEGRAPH” (1865)
- VI LETTERS ON RAILWAYS AND THE STATE (1865, 1868, 1870)
- VII SPEECHES ON TRADES UNIONS AND STRIKES (1868)
- VIII EMPLOYMENT FOR THE DESTITUTE POOR AND CRIMINAL CLASSES (1868)
- IX LETTERS ON ROMAN INUNDATIONS (1871)
- X LETTERS ON “HOW THE RICH SPEND THEIR MONEY”(1873)
- XI HOME, AND ITS ECONOMIES (“CONTEMPORARY REVIEW,” MAY 1873)
- Plate section
I - LETTERS ON “MUNERA PULVERIS” (1863, 1875, 1877)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- PART I “UNTO THIS LAST” (1860)
- PART II “MUNERA PULVERIS” (1862, 1863)
- PART III “TIME AND TIDE, BY WEARE AND TYNE” (1867)
- APPENDIX: LETTERS AND PAPERS ON ECONOMIC SUBJECTS 1863–1873
- I LETTERS ON “MUNERA PULVERIS” (1863, 1875, 1877)
- II THE DEPRECIATION OF GOLD (1863)
- III LETTERS ON THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND (1864, 1873)
- IV LETTERS ON WORK AND WAGES TO THE “PALL MALL GAZETTE” (1865)
- V LETTERS ON SERVANTS AND HOUSES TO THE “DAILY TELEGRAPH” (1865)
- VI LETTERS ON RAILWAYS AND THE STATE (1865, 1868, 1870)
- VII SPEECHES ON TRADES UNIONS AND STRIKES (1868)
- VIII EMPLOYMENT FOR THE DESTITUTE POOR AND CRIMINAL CLASSES (1868)
- IX LETTERS ON ROMAN INUNDATIONS (1871)
- X LETTERS ON “HOW THE RICH SPEND THEIR MONEY”(1873)
- XI HOME, AND ITS ECONOMIES (“CONTEMPORARY REVIEW,” MAY 1873)
- Plate section
Summary
Baden, Switzerland, 26th Oct. 1863.
My Dear Sir,—I have your interesting letter. If you can look up the numbers of Fraser's Magazine for June, September, to December 1862, and April 1863, you will find more of my political economy. You need not trouble yourself with the bits that are full of Latin and Greek, but read the plain English carefully, as it contains definitions which you will find useful. In basing man's interest on his selfishness, you will find that God thinks better of His creatures, and has based his interests here and for ever on his unselfishness (unless indeed you read Matthew xvi. 24: “If any man will follow me, let him indulge himself, and take up his “purse”; or Timothy vi. 9: “They that will be rich fall into wise and profitable lusts,” and so on). Depend upon it that so-called science of political economy is an entirely bastard one; a greater delusion than ever the Papacy was. There is a science of political economy, but the law of it is Help, not Competition.
After you have looked at the Fraser papers, I shall be glad if you will let me hear from you again. My address will be Denmark Hill, Camberwell, London.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 485 - 487Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1905