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Title: The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century
Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February
4th and 11th, 1884

Author: John Ruskin

Release Date: December 28, 2006 [EBook #20204]

Language: English

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THE COMPLETE WORKS

OF

JOHN RUSKIN

VOLUME XXIV

OUR FATHERS HAVE TOLD US

STORM-CLOUD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

HORTUS INCLUSUS

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THE STORM-CLOUD OF THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY.

TWO LECTURES

DELIVERED AT THE LONDON INSTITUTION

FEBRUARY 4TH AND 11TH, 1884.

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CONTENTS.

PAGE

PREFACE iii

LECTURE I. (FEBRUARY 4) 1

LECTURE II. (FEBRUARY 11) 31

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PREFACE.

The following lectures, drawn up under the pressure of more
imperative and quite otherwise directed work, contain many passages
which stand in need of support, and some, I do not doubt, more or
less of correction, which I always prefer to receive openly from
the better knowledge of friends, after setting down my own
impressions of the matter in clearness as far as they reach, than
to guard myself against by submitting my manuscript, before
publication, to annotators whose stricture or suggestion I might
often feel pain in refusing, yet hesitation in admitting.

But though thus hastily, and to some extent incautiously, thrown
into form, the statements in the text are founded on patient