"  Use  your  now  splendidly  organized  body  of  correspon-
dents to  find  out  what  is  being  done  by  good  and  wise  men
under  the  advancing  conditions  of  our  civilization—  expose,
once  for  all,  the  fallacies  of  dishonest  or  ignorant  politicians,
and  name  them  no  more.  (How  much  type  have  you  spent,
do  you  suppose,  in  printing  the   names  of  members  of  the


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present  scratch  Parliament  who  know  no  more  of  policy  than
their  parish  beadle.)

"  Press  home  whatever  wise  and  gentle  and  practical  truth
you  find  spoken,  whether  in  Parliament  or  out  of  it,  by  men
who  are  seeking  for  truth  and  for  peace.
"  And  believe  me  always  your  faithful  and  grateful  servant,

"John  Ruskin.
"  Brantwood,  June  6th  (1886).
