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Read & copy the quotation
“all you can rightly do, or honourably become, depends on the government of these two instincts of order and kindness, by this great Imaginative faculty”
- Date
- 1870
Meaning of “all you can rightly do, or honourably become,…”
Imagination is given an ethical role in Ruskin’s argument: creative conception should be governed together with order and kindness rather than treated as detached fantasy.
Where does it come from?
Lectures on Art, Lecture III, Project Gutenberg #19164. This is Ruskin’s moral-aesthetic framework and remains a historical normative claim.
