ABSTRACT
Ruskin describes as 'the work of a world-wide monastery, protesting, by patient, not violent, deed, and fearless, yet henceforward unpassionate, word, against the evil of this our day, till in its heart and force it be ended'. As he wrote in the Abstract of the Objects and Constitution of the St. George's Guild, 'The St. George's Guild consists of a body of persons who think, primarily, that it is time for honest persons to separate themselves intelligibly from knaves. At the Edinburgh Summer Schools, he encouraged the involution of studies recommended by Ruskin, believing that schools 'should aim to offer the kind of completeness in liberal education that, he thought, Ruskin had described in Fors Clavigera'. The author concludes that 'we are at last gradually recognising the Greek ideal of education on which Ruskin has founded his scheme, realising that it must be with education as with philosophy. It must be vitalised and loved or knowledge can do no good'.
