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Excerpt from The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections From His Writings 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. He will enable my spirit, Proust wrote in the first fervors of discipleship, to enter regions to which formerly it had no access, for he is the gate. Gandhi wrote in his autobiography that reading Unto This Last had awakened some of his deepest convie tions and transformed his life. The list might be extended William Morris and Ezra Pound, Tolstoy and Clement Attlee, Bernard Shaw and Frank Lloyd Wright - but the additions only heighten one's perplexity that a single mind could so decisively influence such diverse men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.