 There is no wealth but life — -life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings...  Social Ideals in English Letters - Page 217by Vida Dutton Scudder - 1898 - 329 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1919 - 1188 pages
...them what wonders and treasuries of joy lay for every man and woman in the mere faculty of sight. ' There is no wealth but life; life, including all its powers of love, of joy, of admiration.' Such sayings as that were startling paradoxes to a time that believed in letting the... | |
 | E A. Snow - 1866 - 146 pages
...Life. Life ; including all its powers of love, joy, and of admiration.' ' That country,' he says, ' is the richest, which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings,' ie healthy beings. A startling proposition this to those who boast that Great Britain is the richest,... | |
 | 1871 - 970 pages
...placed in the teacher's hands. Cms. " THERE is no wealth but life. Life, including all its power« of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the (Creates! number of noble and happy beings ; that man is the richest who, baring perfected the functions... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 156 pages
...TIIEUE is NO WEALTH BUT LIFK. Life, • indnding all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. I That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest...richest who, having perfected the functions of his own lift ; to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both . personal, and by means of his possessions,... | |
 | 1893 - 902 pages
...possesses simply physical health, strength, and reasoning faculties, with clothes enough to cover * " There is no wealth but life ; life including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration." — BUSKIN. him, we rise by insensible gradations, by an unbroken line, to the millionaire who controls... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1881 - 152 pages
...desire, in closing the series of introductory papers, to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THEJIE is NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers...richest who, having perfected the functions of his own lifa to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of liis possessions,... | |
 | Ernest Faulkner Brown - 1881 - 86 pages
...reaction of other lives upon his own. All these stimulate and fructify his own life ; and after all " there is no wealth but life : life including all its...number of noble and happy human beings : that man is the richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost has also the widest helpful... | |
 | Carroll Davidson Wright - 1882 - 68 pages
...personal and by means of his accumulated wealth, over the lives of others ; and, again, that nation is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.2 All this may seem to be strange political economy ; but it is of that nature which the future... | |
 | Henry William Little - 1884 - 166 pages
...fashion it, till at last it wears the likeness of God or the image of a demon. LVII. THE RICHEST MAN. — There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its...the greatest number of noble and happy human beings ; and that LVI. man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has... | |
 | Charles Rowley - 1885 - 80 pages
...— GEORGE ELIOT, LETTERS, "THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH." SOCIAL POLITICS. BY CHARLES ROWLEY, JUN. " There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its...the greatest number of noble and happy human beings, and that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also... | |
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