But in the end it is seen that
Ruskin's style, like his subject-matter, is a unity,--an emanation from
a divine enthusiasm making for "whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are of good report."
[11] See p. 162.
[12] See p. 139.
[13] See p. 147.
[14] See p. 121.
[15] See p. 122.
[16] See p. 149.
[17] See p. 122.
[18] _The Mystery of Life_.
[19] _Sesame and Lilies_, "Kings' Treasuries," Sec.Sec. 25, 31.
[20] _The Crown of Wild Olive_, "War."
[21] "Kings' Treasuries," Sec. 32.
SELECTIONS FROM MODERN PAINTERS
The five volumes of _Modern Painters_ appeared at various intervals
between 1843 and 1860, from the time Ruskin was twenty-four until he
was forty. The first volume was published in May, 1843; the second, in
April, 1846; the third, January 15, 1856; the fourth, April 14, 1856;
the last, in June, 1860. As his knowledge of his subject broadened and
deepened, we find the later volumes differing greatly in viewpoint
and style from the earlier; but, as stated in the preface to the last
volume, "in the main aim and principle of the book there is no
variation, from its first syllable to its last." Ruskin himself
maintained that the most important influence upon his thought in
preparation for his work in _Modern Painters_ was not from his "love
of art, but of mountains and seas"; and all the power of judgment he
had obtained in art, he ascribed to his "steady habit of always
looking for the subject principally, and for the art only as the means
of expressing it.
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