Quote#World
The great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than…
Quote byJohn Ruskin · 1819–1900
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Stones of Venice (1853), Volume II, chapter VI, section 16.
English (original)
the great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, — that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages.
— John Ruskin
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