Tham khảo tài liệu 'luyện dịch tiếng anh và tìm hiểu văn chương anh part 9', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | JOHN RUSKIN 1819 - 1900 Ruskin has been an art and literary critic social reformer educationist. Ruskin began his career as a critic of art but he was later interested in many fields painting sculpture architecture philosophy literature education sociology. As an art critic Ruskin said Art is a necessary insight into spiritual values hidden behind the beauty of matter. It is the expression f one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it. Great art is preeminently and finally the expression of the spữits of great men . It followed in his thought that excellent art depends upon the health and excellence of the social order in which men live. In addition art is art whether it be lesser or greater A blacksmith may put soul into the making of horseshoe and an architect may put none into the building of a church. Only exactly in proportion as the soul is thrown into it the art become Fine. All work therefore ought to be art for Life without industry is guilt and industry without art is brutality. The Stone of Venice taught the laws of constructive Art and the dependence of all human work on edifice for its beauty 330 I or the happy life of the workman Unto this Last taaght the laws of that life itself and Its dependence on the sun of justice and lastly Fars Clavigerahad declared the relation of social classes to each other and the Only possible conditions of peace and humour for low and high rich and poor. As a social reformer like Carlyle Ruskin denounces the debasing influences of modem industrialism and materialism of the time. He maintains that Labour should be made healthy and pleasurable. The Great evil of civilization lay not in the fact that men are half-starved but that they take no pleasure in the work by which they earn their living. And they cannot possibly take pleasure while there is over specialization. Specialization is good up to a point but over specialization à bad far it deadens the worker. A man .
