BREVITIES FROM RUSKIN.
Six. — All tlie sin of men I esteem as their - disease, not tlieir nature. Amusement. — When men arc rightly occupied, the •-.•- nsements grow out of their work. Money-making. — It is physically impossible for a well-educated, intellectual, or br-.ve man, to make money tho chief object t of his thoughts. Regarding well-doing. — For if. resolutely, people do what is right, in time to come they like doing it. But they are only in a right moral state When they.have Cojifc ; > to like doing it ; and aa long as they_ dont like it, they are still in a vicious state." „ Christianity. — Pure Christianity gives her remission of sins only by ending them ; but false Christianity gets her remission of sins by compounding for them. j * • Concerning God. — People aire ready to r-i on fervent crusades to recover the tomb oi a buried God, but never on any travels to fulfil the orders of a living one.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 24 March 1891, Page 4
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157BREVITIES FROM RUSKIN. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 24 March 1891, Page 4
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