RUSKIN, THE MORALIST

Ruskin revolted against the materialism of the eighteenth century. Poetry had become mere polished verse, life mere polished existence. High morals were not cared for. Prophets came in the nineteenth century. The poetic utterances of Wordsworth and Coleridge created a congenial atmosphere in the ethical sense. And upon these like supporting atillery, followed the writings of Carlyle and Ruskin to