 So that, when I tell you that war is the foundation of all the arts, I mean also that it is the foundation of all the high virtues and faculties of men.  Peace Insurance - Page 117by Richard Stockton - 1915 - 214 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - English literature - 1873 - 232 pages
...without such expression, is to say that it is sunk from its proper level of manly nature. So that, when I tell you that war is the foundation of all...foundation of all the high virtues and faculties of men. 94. It was very strange to me to discover this ; and very dreadful — but I saw it to be quite an... | |
 | John Ruskin - England - 1873 - 228 pages
...without such expression, is to say that it is sunk from its proper level of manly nature. So that, when I tell you that war is the foundation of all...foundation of all the high virtues and faculties of men. 94. It was very strange to me to discover this ; and very dreadful — but I saw it to be quite an... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1873 - 230 pages
...without such expression, is to say that it is sunk from its proper level of manly nature. So that, when I tell you that war is the foundation of all...foundation of all the high virtues and faculties of men. 94. It was very strange to me to discover this ; and very dreadful — but I saw it to be quite an... | |
 | John Ruskin - Prussia (Germany) - 1874 - 164 pages
...without such expression, is to say that it is sunk from its proper level of manly nature. So that, when I tell you that war is the foundation • of...virtues and faculties of men. It was very strange to me to discover this ; and very dreadfnl — but I saw it to be quite an undeniable fact. The com-... | |
 | Education - 1917 - 726 pages
...advocate of peace. It is with surprise, then, that we find these words in his "Crown of Wild Olive" : "When I tell you that war is the foundation of all...foundation of all the high virtues and faculties of men. It is very strange to me to discover this, and very dreadful — but I saw it to be quite an undeniable... | |
 | Walter Senior - Sermons, English - 1880 - 388 pages
...I tell you," he says in his book, Ruskin on 'The Crown of Wild Olive/ "that war is the hist ° ry ' foundation of all the arts, I mean also that it is...foundation of all the high virtues and faculties of man. " It was very strange to me to discover this: and very dreadful—but I saw it to be quite an... | |
 | John Ruskin - Prussia (Germany) - 1882 - 230 pages
...without such expression, is to say that it is sunk from its proper level of manly nature. So that, when I tell you that war is the foundation of all...foundation of all the high virtues and faculties of men. 94. It was very strange to me to discover this ; and very dreadful — but I saw it to be quite an... | |
 | Alfred Edersheim - 1882 - 398 pages
...terrible agencies which God employs in the evolution of His great purposes respecting man and his world. " When I tell you that war is the foundation of all the arts," writes one of our greatest thinkers, John Runkia, " I mean also that it is the foundation of all the... | |
 | Frances Anabel Edmunds - 1882 - 160 pages
...that many have entered the kingdom ' out of great tribulation.' Ruskin goes so far as to say that War is 'the foundation of all the high virtues and faculties of men,' and that the idea that Peace and Virtue flourish together is wholly untenable. To quote his own startling... | |
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1884 - 434 pages
...without such expression, is to say that it is sunk from its proper level of manly nature. So that, when I tell you that war is the foundation of all...virtues and faculties of men. • It was very strange to me to discover this ; and very dreadful—but I saw it to be quite an undeniable fact. The common... | |
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