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Feb 8, 1819 — Jan 20, 1900· 80 yrs

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John Ruskin

Also known as: Kata Phusin (pseud.), William Thackeray, John Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, Thomas Huxley, Edward Freeman, Robert Stevenson

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Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a public research university in the region of East Anglia, United Kingdom. Its origins date back to the Cambridge School of Art (CSA), founded in 1858 by William John Beamont, a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. The institution became a university in 1992 and was renamed after John Ruskin, the Oxford University professor and author, in 2005. Ruskin delivered the inaugural speech at the Cambridge School of Art in 1858. ARU is classified as one of the "post-1992 universities." The university's motto is in Latin: Excellentia per societatem, which translates to Excellence through partnership in English.

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At the turn of the century a young litterateur in Paris and an Indian lawyer in Johannesburg discovered Ruskin, and in so doing discovered themselves.

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The genius of John Ruskin

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Excerpts of John Ruskin's writings, with an overall introduction and separate introductions to five sections representing key aspects of Ruskin's life and work -- art, architecture, society (industrialization and British society, including "Unto This Last"), solitude (Ruskin's later period of intellectual isolation), and self (Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita"). The book also includes a chronology of Ruskin's life and a bibliography of works about Ruskin with editor's comments on their significance.

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"Unto this last"

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Unto This Last is an essay on economy by John Ruskin, critical of the 18th and 19th century capitalist economists. When first published as four magazine articles in 1860 they were, in the words of Ruskin himself, "very violently criticized" and the publisher was force to halt publication. But Ruskin persevered and released the four articles in this book form in 1862. Gandhi read Unto This Last in 1904 and it had a huge impact on his social and economic philosophy, with Gandhi making an immediate decision to live according to Ruskin's teachings.

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The king of the Golden River; or, The black brothers

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Through kindness a boy regains for himself the treasure his cruel older brothers lost.

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