What John Ruskin thinks about government
English art critic and social thinker (1819 to 1900); author of Unto This Last.
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1 dated position, c. 1860–1862, in their own words. Our reading of what John Ruskin has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingSome people are permanently superior and should guide, and at times compel, their inferiors
Their wordsMy continual aim has been to show the eternal superiority of some men to others, sometimes even of one man to all others; and to show also the advisability of appointing such persons or person to guide, to lead, or on occasion even to compel and subdue, their inferiors, according to their own better knowledge and wiser will.
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