Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy

UNTO THIS LAST AND OTHER ESSAYS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY

by

JOHN RUSKIN

London Melbourne & Toronto Ward Lock & Co Limited 1912

CONTENTS.

PART I. PAGE THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART 7✦

LECTURE I. 11 1. Discovery 23 2. Application 28

LECTURE II. 46 3. Accumulation 46 4. Distribution 65

ADDENDA 86 Note 1.--"Fatherly Authority" 86 " 2.--"Right to Public Support" 90 " 3.--"Trial Schools" 95 " 4.--"Public Favour" 101 " 5.--"Invention of new wants" 102 " 6.--"Economy of Literature" 104 " 7.--"Pilots of the State" 106 " 8.--"Silk and Purple" 107

PART II.✦

UNTO THIS LAST 117

ESSAY I.--The Roots of Honour 127 II.--The Veins of Wealth 143 III.--"Qui Judicatis Terram" 156 IV.--Ad Valorem 173

PART III.✦

ESSAYS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY[A]

I.--MAINTENANCE OF LIFE: WEALTH, MONEY AND RICHES 207 Section 1. Wealth 214 " 2. Money 219 " 3. Riches 222

II.--NATURE OF WEALTH, VARIATIONS OF VALUE, THE NATIONAL STORE, NATURE OF LABOUR, VALUE AND PRICE, THE CURRENCY 225

III.--THE CURRENCY-HOLDERS AND STORE-HOLDERS, THE DISEASE OF DESIRE 252

IV.--LAWS AND GOVERNMENTS: LABOUR AND RICHES 278

[A] These Essays were afterwards revised and amplified, and published with others under the title "Munera Pulveris."

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART.