What John Ruskin thinks about energy

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English art critic and social thinker (1819 to 1900); author of Unto This Last.

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1. c. 1860–1862

   Our readingRiches are relative and have power only through other people's lack

   Their wordsWhereas riches are a power like that of electricity, acting only through inequalities or negations of itself. The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket.

   ↗Unto This Last (1860-1862)gutenberg.org All 21 from this book