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
V - LETTERS ON SERVANTS AND HOUSES TO THE “DAILY TELEGRAPH” (1865)
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
DOMESTIC SERVANTS—MASTERSHIP
To the Editor of the “Daily Telegraph”
Sir,—You so seldom write nonsense, that you will, I am sure, pardon your friends for telling you when you do. Your article on servants to-day is nonsense. It is just as easy and as difficult now to get good servants as it ever was. You may have them, as you may have pines and peaches, for the growing, or you may even buy them good, if you can persuade the good growers to spare you them off their walls; but you cannot get them by political economy and the law of supply and demand.
There are broadly two ways of making good servants; the first, a sound, wholesome, thorough-going slavery—which was the heathen way, and no bad one neither, provided you understand that to make real “slaves” you must make yourself a real “master” (which is not easy). The second is the Christian's way: “whoso delicately bringeth up his servant from a child, shall have him become his son at the last.” And as few people want their servants to become their sons, this is not a way to their liking.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 518 - 527Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1905