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I. PRIDE OF SCIENCE. II. ROMAN RENAISSANCE. 51
enjoy, act, adore; and we may know all that is to be known
in this world, and what Satan knows in the other, without
being able to do any of these. We are to ask, therefore, first,
is the knowledge we would have fit food for us, good and
simple, not artificial and decorated ? and secondly, how much
of it will enable us best for our work; and will leave our
hearts light, and our eyes clear ? For no more than that is
to be eaten without the old Eve-sin.
§ xxvii. Observe, also, the difference between tasting knowledge, and hoarding it. In this respect it is also like food;
since, in some measure, the knowledge of all men is laid up in
granaries, for future use ; much of it is at any given moment
dormant, not fed upon or enjoyed, but in store. And by all
it is to be remembered, that knowledge in this form may be
kept without air till it rots, or in such unthreshed disorder that
it is of no use; and that, however good or orderly, it is still
only in being tasted that it becomes of use; and that men
may easily starve in their own granaries, men of science, perhaps, most of all, for they are likely to seek accumulation of
their store, rather than nourishment from it. Yet let it not
be thought that I would undervalue them. The good and
great among them are like Joseph, to whom all nations sought
to buy corn; or like the sower going forth to sow beside all
waters, sending forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass:
only let us remember that this is not all men's work. We are
not intended to be all keepers of granaries, nor all to be measured by the filling of a storehouse; but many, nay, most of
us, are to receive day by day our daily bread, and shall be
as well nourished and as fit for our labor, and often, also, fit
for nobler and more divine labor, in feeding from the barrel
of meal that does not waste, and from the cruse of oil that
does not fail, than if our barns were filled with plenty, and our
presses bursting out with new wine.
§ xxviii. It is for each man to find his own measure in this
matter; in great part, also, for others to find it for him, while
he is yet a youth. And the desperate evil of the whole Renaissance system is, that all idea of measure is therein forgot-
| Title | The stones of Venice - 3 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000065 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | I. PRIDE OF SCIENCE. II. ROMAN RENAISSANCE. 51 enjoy, act, adore; and we may know all that is to be known in this world, and what Satan knows in the other, without being able to do any of these. We are to ask, therefore, first, is the knowledge we would have fit food for us, good and simple, not artificial and decorated ? and secondly, how much of it will enable us best for our work; and will leave our hearts light, and our eyes clear ? For no more than that is to be eaten without the old Eve-sin. § xxvii. Observe, also, the difference between tasting knowledge, and hoarding it. In this respect it is also like food; since, in some measure, the knowledge of all men is laid up in granaries, for future use ; much of it is at any given moment dormant, not fed upon or enjoyed, but in store. And by all it is to be remembered, that knowledge in this form may be kept without air till it rots, or in such unthreshed disorder that it is of no use; and that, however good or orderly, it is still only in being tasted that it becomes of use; and that men may easily starve in their own granaries, men of science, perhaps, most of all, for they are likely to seek accumulation of their store, rather than nourishment from it. Yet let it not be thought that I would undervalue them. The good and great among them are like Joseph, to whom all nations sought to buy corn; or like the sower going forth to sow beside all waters, sending forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass: only let us remember that this is not all men's work. We are not intended to be all keepers of granaries, nor all to be measured by the filling of a storehouse; but many, nay, most of us, are to receive day by day our daily bread, and shall be as well nourished and as fit for our labor, and often, also, fit for nobler and more divine labor, in feeding from the barrel of meal that does not waste, and from the cruse of oil that does not fail, than if our barns were filled with plenty, and our presses bursting out with new wine. § xxviii. It is for each man to find his own measure in this matter; in great part, also, for others to find it for him, while he is yet a youth. And the desperate evil of the whole Renaissance system is, that all idea of measure is therein forgot- |
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