John Ruskin
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Oct 28, 2026
Barbara TuckerHOST
Not to get specific, but it seems that their marriage is not really consummated, although it's only vaguely implied by his absence and her loneliness.
Barbara TuckerHOST
A recently made colleague from the UK suggested to me that Elliot may have been thinking of the art critic John Ruskin and his young wife Effie Gray.
Barbara TuckerHOST
It was well-known gossip that they had not slept together and eventually Effie got out of the marriage by annulment.
Barbara TuckerHOST
Dorothea is far too dutiful though despite her loneliness.
Emily JonesGUEST
So, you have lots of people like, you know, Lord Ashley, who later becomes the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, figures like Richard Osler, Michael Sadler, later the kind of Young England figures, which obviously includes Disraeli.
Emily JonesGUEST
as well as figures like John Ruskin, so the art critic and social critic, figures like Thomas Carlyle, who's, you know, this incredibly influential sage to socialists and Labour figures, as well as to, you know, people, liberals, and his bestie is John Stuart Mill, as well as kind of conservatives and things like that.
Emily JonesGUEST
So this concern for the condition of the people is not a kind of it's really not about finance or our funding.
Emily JonesGUEST
So no one wants to raise taxes.
Andrew ClarkHOST
Um, but it's pretty good.
Andrew ClarkHOST
It's like a daily kind of quotes of wisdom from Confucius and told story and Talmud and just a lot and just John Ruskin and just a bunch of different quotes and things like that for each day of the year.
Andrew ClarkHOST
So it's a, it's pretty, pretty solid to, to read through.
Sid MengeleckHOST
Excellent.
Ben DarkGUEST
So yeah, I think you're right to pick up a bit of conflict in my attitudes to taxonomy, taxonomists, and how it's been carried out.
Ben DarkGUEST
But I wouldn't take a sort of Ruskin approach, like John Ruskin, who was appalled by the whole lot of it and the fact that the scientists had taken over from the poets in describing the plants of our worlds.
Sarah WilsonHOST
I mean, you did write about his idea that kind of by unpacking all of nature's secrets, then we destroy the romanticism.
Sarah WilsonHOST
And so obviously you don't subscribe to that point of view.
Ben DarkGUEST
I completely agree.
Ben DarkGUEST
I think that's a very good and generous reading of it.
Ben DarkGUEST
And I love Ruskin.
Ben DarkGUEST
I love the poetry of his writing and the way that he tried to encourage us to see the world through a poetic lens.
Charita BowerVOICE_ACTOR
What is the pathetic fallacy, Mr. Quinn?
Ernest ChappellVOICE_ACTOR
It's a philosophical concept of John Ruskin, Miss, uh...
Charita BowerVOICE_ACTOR
Alice King.
Ernest ChappellVOICE_ACTOR
A philosophical concept, Miss Alice King, which derives from the imputation of human qualities or emotions to an inanimate thing.
Tim Winton SelectualsHOST
Guys, it's literally the same argument that was made in 1871 during the Paris Commune.
Tim Winton SelectualsHOST
I've read these great reports by people like John Ruskin, who talk about the petrolerces, right, the women with petrol cans and stuff, and they're like, they're going to burn the love! It's like, man, if you don't want people to destroy the city they're living in, then you've got to make the city livable or they're going to do it.
Tim Winton SelectualsHOST
I don't think that rioting is a transparent and useful political tactic all the time, but it's not something that you can moralize away because it is the outburst of energies that have been created by real objective conditions.
Patrick MarlboroughHOST
Big granola race riots, exactly.
Jake BairHOST
Today is the fourth Sunday in October, so I will be reading a short story that is longer.
Jake BairHOST
This one is The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin.
Jake BairHOST
We read from John Ruskin about art and what it should do, about how art should basically ennoble all of us and make us better people.
Jake BairHOST
And so now I figured we could read one of his short stories and see if he's able to do that.
Jake BairHOST
This is The King of the Golden River.
Jake BairHOST
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Jake BairHOST
So here is The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin.
David DedrickHOST
know...
David DedrickHOST
So John Ruskin's marriage ended with his wife...
Ian BoothbyHOST
Was he eaten by a giant black
David DedrickHOST
snake? Not a black snake.
Erik CasonHOST
There's just another really, yes.
Erik CasonHOST
Uh, there's a great quote from John Ruskin.
Erik CasonHOST
Uh, he was a pretty famous philosopher in the late 19th century, but he influenced Thoreau in his writings on civil disobedience.
Erik CasonHOST
But in Ruskin, he has his own economic philosophy that he puts forward where he says, look, he was like, the thing that sort of makes the whole economic function malfunction, in my opinion, is that man has a soul.
Erik CasonHOST
And his soul is this engine of production that he uses to create his life.
Erik CasonHOST
And he was like...
AdrienneHOST
thank you for listening you can get involved in a few ways there's a facebook page where we actively discuss the ideas around classical education You can find us on Facebook at facebook.com forward slash groups forward slash classical education.
AdrienneHOST
And if you want to help offset our production costs, you can support the podcast financially by going to www.classicaleducationpodcast.com. forward slash support as the great artist and educator john ruskin once said well my friends the final result of the education i want you to give your children will be in a few words this they will know what it is to see the sky they will know what it is to breathe it and they will know best of all what it is to behave under it as in the presence of a father who is in heaven
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