ABSTRACT

1. "Fors Clavigera": Its personal quality: opinions of Carlyle and Shaw. 2. Genesis of the work: government and misgovernment: worship of money the great illusion: rich and poor: obligations of the classes: luxury—useful and useless: manual labour: usury: the control of the machine: the place of women: the decoration of Barataria: marriage: necessity for co-operation. 3. Growth of Raskin's social philosophy: the basis of his ideas: true life the unum necessarium: the Guild of St. George: its structure: the village school: theories of education. 4. The Guild in practice: smallness of membership: experiments, successful and unsuccessful: the Sheffield Museum: dependent artists.