Excerpt from The Work of John Ruskin: Its Influence Upon Modern Thought and Life
The claims of criticism to practical utility are not established beyond a doubt If we run our eyes over a list of books about books, of critical reviews and commentaries on the published works of remarkable men, which every day seem to grow in bulk, we must at times have asked: "Is it not a mistake thus to block up the way between the reading public and the great books, and to occupy any portion of the small amount of time which the most studious can hardly find sufficient to devote to the reading of the great works themselves?"
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