“Absolute justice is indeed no more attainable than absolute truth; but the righteous man is distinguished from the unrighteous by his desire and hope of justice, as the true man from the false by his desire and hope of truth. And though absolute justice be unattainable, as much justice as we need for all practical use is attainable by all those who make it their aim.”

“[…] Nothing in history had ever been so disgraceful to human intellect as the acceptance among us of the common doctrines of political economy as a science. […] I know no previous instance in history of a nation's establishing a systematic disobedience to the first principles of its professed religion. The writings which we (verbally) esteem as divine, not only denounce the love of money as the source of all evil, and as an idolatry abhorred of the Deity, but declare mammon service to be the accurate and irreconcileable opposite of God's service: and, whenever they speak of riches absolute, and poverty absolute, declare woe to the rich, and blessing to the poor. Where upon we forthwith investigate a science of becoming rich as the shortest road to national prosperity.”

UNTO THIS LAST - Essay III: Qui Judicatis Terram

John Ruskin and Sir John Everett Millais (1853):
Edinburgh Lecture diagram:
Decorated cusped gothic window

John Ruskin (1858):
Design for a Window, Oxford Museum