...383 BOOK I. PROEM. VOL. XIII. CHAPTER I. MIDAS. THE condition of England, on which many pamphlets are now in the course of publication, and many thoughts...as one of the most ominous, and withal one of the stran gest, ever seen in this world. England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for...

...involved ! How directly he puts his finger on England's sore spot in the first page of Past and Present: " England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce,...land of England blooms and grows ; waving with yellow harvests ; thick-studded with workshops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers, understood...

...written in 1 843, when he began ' Past and Present ' with the words :— " The condition of England is justly regarded as one of the most ominous, and...in every kind ; yet England is dying of inanition." — remained true in 1871. • Ruskin saw and felt, as only a true man can, that the lust of gold was...

...in England, not as tourists may represent it, but as it actually is. We extract the greater part : "England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce,...land of England blooms and grows ; waving with yellow harvests ; thick-studded with workshops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers, understood...

...natural means. JL MAHON. Enchanted Fruit. — "England is full of wealth, ot multifarious produce ; yet England is dying of inanition. With unabated bounty...land of England blooms and grows, waving with yellow harvest, thick-studded with work-shops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers, understood...

...AND PRESENT. BOOK I. PROEM. CHAPTEK I. MIDAS. THE condition of England, on which many pamphlets are now in the course of publication, and many thoughts...land of England blooms and grows ; waving with yellow harvests ; thick-studded with workshops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers, understood...

...England, but now too sadly applicable to most European countries : — The condition of England [he says] is justly regarded as one of the most ominous, and...land of England blooms and grows, waving with yellow harvests, thick-studded with workshops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers, understood...

...England, on which many pamphlets aro now in the course of publication, and many thoughts unpublished arc going on in every reflective head, is justly regarded...the strangest, ever seen in this world. England is fuli of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying...

...PRESENT. BOOK FIRST. PROEM. CHAPTER I. MIDAS. THE condition of England, on which many pamphlets are now in the course of publication, and many thoughts...land of England blooms and grows ; waving with yellow harvests ; thick-studded with workshops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions ot workers, understood...

...Carlyle, in his Past and Present, says : " The condition of England, on which many pamphlets are now in course of publication, and many thoughts, unpublished...in every kind ; yet England is dying of inanition." Speaking of her fifteen million workers, he continues : " Some two millions, it is now counted, sit...