This document discusses an essay by John Ruskin addressing members of the Working Men's Institute in Camberwell. It summarizes Ruskin's key points about different types of labor. Ruskin distinguishes between idle rich/poor and working classes, intellectual vs manual labor, rough work suited for rough men vs gentle work for gentlemen, and wise labor that is fair, useful and cheerful vs foolish labor. Ruskin's overall message is that both kinds of work should be done properly and willingly.

1. “ESSAY WORK”
Written by JOHN RUSKIN
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2. LIFE AND WORKS OF RUSKIN
 If early training and habits of life, if tastes and
character and associations, fix a man's nationality,
then John Ruskin must be reckoned a Scotsman.
 John Ruskin married a gentle woman of
Galloway, Catherine Twaddle.
 He was not to be a poet, nor an artist, nor a man
of science, but the mission was laid upon him to
tell the world that art also had its heroes, that the
mainspring of their energy was sincerity, and the
burden of their utterance was truth.

3. LIFE AND WORKS OF RUSKIN
 At the opening of the Working Men's College
(1854), a reprint of one chapter was distuberd as a
statement of conclutions drawn from the study of
art respecting conditions under which the life of
the workan should be regulated and Ruskin
thenceforward taught drawing at the college.
 At forty years of age,Ruskin finished Modern
Painters, which concluded the cycle of work by
which he is popularly known as a writer upon art.
 In 1879, he retired from his professorship to the
quiet of his home at Coniston.

4. RUSKIN MESSAGE
Ruskin found his age too much
engrossed in material pursuits.

Itwas Ruskin who along with Carlyle,
heralded a note of warning to his
generation and tried to raise it to that
pedestal of morality from where man as
man could be perceived.
Ruskin taught his age that wealth is not
the equivalent of happiness.

5. Monetary habits degrade human beings
and they come so shameless and cruel as
to exploit their own brothers and sisters
without any tinge of repentance or any
fear from God.
Today we agree with him when we have
to tackle the labors problem.
Ruskin message in this way is very
practical. Man are more valuable than
money.

6. The Title
 It was Ruskin's way to chose
 Fanciful
titles
 Charmingly titles
 Poetical titles
 He chooses such type of titles for his
book. e.g.
1. The Seven lamb
2. Sesames and lilies.

7. The Title
 Thetitle The Crown Wild Olives has
nothing directly to do with Latin. It is
connected with Greek life.
 Themeaning of the title is explained by
Ruskin himself in the last paragraphof the
preface to the book.

8. “INDUSTRIALIZATION”
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
Ruskin was born in an industrial age.
Men were less important than money.
He enunciated certain Principles of life.

9. Principle work for Ruskin
 Modern Painters (1843-1846)
 The king of the Golden River (1851).
 The Stones of Venice (1851).
 Giotto and his Works in Padua (1853-1854).
 The Seven Lamps of (1855).

10. RUSKIN STYLE
He is certainly one of the greatest
masters of English prose style.
Language is flexible instrument in his
hand.
In the earlier writings of Ruskin, We
find an ornamental, gorgeous prose.
Picturesque in his literary expression.
He is rich in the power of illustration.

11. HIS LATTER STYLE
Specially in his socio-economic writings
 Sentence are not overloaded with ornament.
 There is no vagueness.
 Rhythm is the principal weapon of Ruskin.
 The other salient feature of Ruskin's style is
the length of his sentences..
 The language is power full and alliterative.
 Ruskin's great power lies in the skilful
handling of mono-syllabic.

12. REFERENCE FROM BIBLE
Do justice and judgment.
Soon, go work today in my vineyard.
They rest from their labors and their
works do follow them.
In the sweet of thy face thou shalt eat
bread.

13. ABOUT HIS ESSAY WORK
Ruskin addresses the members of the
Working Men’s Institute at Camber
well where he has passed the greater
part of his life. Such Institutes prepare
the way for a great change in all the
circumstances of industrial life.

14. ABOUT HIS ESSAY WORK
The author then makes his point more
explicit by giving the examples of Working
Men’s Colleges and Idle Men’s Colleges.
Working men call their employers idle
persons whereas the masters call their
subordinates idle.
But the fact is that there are the idle poor
and idle rich.

15. ABOUT HIS ESSAY WORK
 There is a working class-strong and happy
among both rich and poor; there is an idle
class-weak, wicked and miserable among
both rich and poor.
 There is misunderstanding between the two
classes, it is because the wise of one class
habitually contemplate the foolish of the
other.

16. THE THIRD DISTINCTION
Between the intellectual and manual labors
The work should be done by arms,
otherwise none of us could live.
Brain work must also be done
otherwise life would not be worth
living.

17. THE THIRD DISTINCTION
Between the intellectual and manual labors
Rough work is to be done by rough
men and gentle work by gentlemen.
Rough work is at all events real, honest
and generally useful.

18. THE FOURTH DISTINCTION
Between wise labor and foolish labor
 Itis honest, useful and cheerful
 Wise work should be cheerful as a child’s work is.
 To attain God’s kingdom on earth, we require the
character of child.
 This character consists of 4 elements;
 Modesty
 Faithfulness
 Lovingness
 Cheerfulness.
 By including these qualities in him, man can enter
the kingdom of God.

19. THE FOURTH DISTINCTION
Between wise labor and foolish labor
 Soon the other hand work become foolish
and foul when it is not fair, useful and
cheerful.
 Themain reason of this attitude is that they
don’t know which work they can do better.

20. CONCLUSION
The essay tells us that both
kinds of work should be done
properly and willingly.