Unto This Last
by John Ruskin · first published 1860
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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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…mention of his first wife's pubic hair (allegedly, no doubt apocryphally, the discovery of which on Ruskin's part led to their marriage never being consummated) or the wretched story of Rose La Touche. Unto This Last is probably one of the more important books I've ever read (and I wish I'd thought more deeply and more often about the words "There is no wealth but life" during the fifteen years or so since I first…
on “John Ruskin Taught Victorian Readers and Travelers the Art of Cultivation” ↗…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines#Late... Butler also wrote the book Erewhon, online at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1906 For some reason the essay and Butler both evoke John Rushkin and Unto This Last to me, though that may be spurious on my part. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unto_This_Last
on “Darwin Among the Machines (1863)” ↗John Ruskin's "Unto this Last" influenced Gandhi deeply.
on “Prophet of the Human-Built World: An Introduction to John Ruskin” ↗