Ethics of
The Ethics of the Dust
作者：Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
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共 142 题- TEN LECTURES TO LITTLE HOUSEWIVES
- ON THE ELEMENTS OF CRYSTALLIZATION
- BY JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D.,
- HONORARY STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, AND SLADE PROFESSOR OF FINE ART
- DEDICATION.
- CHRISTMAS, 1875.
- CONTENTS.
- LECTURE
- PERSONAE
- ISABEL ..................................... " 11.
- MAY ........................................ " 11.
- LILY ....................................... " 12.
- KATHLEEN.................................... " 14.
- LUCILLA..................................... " 15.
- VIOLET ..................................... " 16.
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- BRANTWOOD:
- PREFACE.
- LECTURE 1.
- THE VALLEY OF DIAMONDS
- L. I think I could be made to feel surer about it.
- L. I suppose it's all right; but how did you manage it?
- L. How large were the others?
- L. You should not have minded the serpents.
- L. We all of us mind you a little too much, Isabel, I'm afraid.
- L. Because you say you were frightened at the serpents.
- L. Yes, Isabel; very real indeed.
- L. Why not?
- L. I never said it was a beautiful place.
- L. So are you, you know.
- L. That's very hard, Florrie; why mustn't I, if you may?
- L. What do you call real things?
- L. Whether you can see them or not?
- L. But if nobody has ever seen them?
- L. No, Florrie. They are much wiser than the people who do see it.
- L. It isn't all water.
- L. Take off the lid, then; gently.
- L. My dear, it would take a week to tell you.
- L. But nobody knows anything about it.
- L. Get along with you, and tell Dora to make tea.
- LECTURE 2.
- THE PYRAMID BUILDERS
- But Pthah only answered, "Let them build, sister, let them build."
- L. The little pyramid.
- L. Yes; but you would not look at it the other day.
- LECTURE 3.
- THE CRYSTAL LIFE
- L. I am sworn; but you won't like it, a bit.
- L. How else could it get there?
- L. What is it to be alive?
- L. Only one?
- L. But if it is answered, won't it turn into two?
- L. Let me hear it.
- L. But, Egypt, why did you tell me you disliked sewing so?
- LECTURE 4.
- THE CRYSTAL ORDERS
- L. Violets won't.
- L. I've always heard the globe had four quarters.
- L. I'm very glad. Can you fetch me the beads of it?
- L. To powder, if you like.
- L. That dust itself is nothing but finer leaves.
- L. It would be all leaves still.
- L. All less leaves still.
- L. Did you never see a bit of green leaf before, Florrie?
- L. Now you have it, Florrie.
- L. Well, so is that thing you've been scratching at.
- LECTURE 5.
- CRYSTAL VIRTUES
- L. What! Florrie ashamed of herself?
- L. And Isabel?
- L. And Mary?
- L. And Lucilla?
- LUCILLA. When they are! But, sir--
- L. Well?
- L. That you have an entirely bad heart?
- L. Would you really rather pull out your own than Tittie's?
- L. But that's very wicked, Lucilla!
- L. That's not true, Lucilla; you know it cannot be.
- L. Only that it tells lies within you?
- L. (pensively). I'm sorry for it, Lucilla.
- L. What are you sorry with, Lucilla?
- L. Yes; I mean, where do you feel sorry; in your feet?
- L. In your shoulders, then?
- L. Well, then, you are sorry in your heart?
- L. Is it not so with the body as well as the soul?
- L. Nor would it be good for you?
- LECTURE 6.
- CRYSTAL QUARRELS
- L. No, softer. Very much softer.
- L. What is it then?
- L. Well; and what do you mean by "giving up one's self"?
- L. Why not rather others for you?
- L. Then why should they bear it?
- L. Read 2 Kings vi. 29.
- L. And they wouldn't be helped, I suppose?
- L. Are you sure the ants could not have helped you, Lily?
- LILY. No, indeed. (Laughing, with some others.)
- LECTURE 7.
- HOME VIRTUES
- L. All about what?
- L. "Vilikens and his--"
- L. _I_ don't.
- L. Dressing.
- L. Well. I'm telling you about it, as fast as I can.
- L. Why, Egypt, I thought--
- L. What did I say first?
- L. I said nothing of the kind.
- L. What do YOU mean by dressing?
- L. Ah! there's the mistake. _I_ mean wearing plain ones.
- L. Yes; on Violet's system of triplicities.
- L. Cooking.
- LECTURE 8.
- CRYSTAL CAPRICE
- L. What do you mean by a group, and what by one crystal?
- L. Yes; that's the fashion at the Tete Noire.
- L. What's that, May?
- L. What! little girls as well as other people?
- L. Why not little girls? Are they wickeder when they are little?
- L Why not little girls, then? (Pause)
- LECTURE 9.
- CRYSTAL SORROWS
- L. You never heard of such things?
- L. Nor you, Sibyl?
- L. They will at least admit that you have minds to change, Dora.
- LECTURE 10.
- THE CRYSTAL REST
- L. It was not neglected in the making of Eve, my dear.
- L. And she was very fond of Alice?
- L. And so when Alice went away?
- L. Well; but I want you to tell it.
- DORA. Oh, yes--yes; and its "pain together, until now."
- MARY (reads)
- NOTES.
- NOTE I.
- NOTE II.
- NOTE III.
- NOTE IV.
- NOTE V.
- NOTE VI.
- L. But what did she want to ask?
- NOTE TO SECOND EDITION