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Accuse 
Of arrogance . . . .  
If, having walked with Nature, 
And olfered, far as frailty would allow, 
My heart a daily sacrifice to Truth, 
Whom I have served, that their Divinity 
Revolts, offended at the ways of men, 
Philosophers, who, though the human soul 
Be of a thousand faculties composed, 
And twice ten thousand faculties composed 
And twice ten thousand interests, do yet prize 
This soul, and the transcendent universe 
N0 more than as a mirror, that reflects 
T0 proud SeIf-love her own intelligence. 
Wordsworth 
[Um den gewaltigen Umschwung, den Ruskins Werke 
über Kunst in England hervorgebracht haben, ganz 
zu würdigen, muss man die ästhetischen Abhandlun- 
gen durchblättern, die den ,Modern Painters' voran- 
gingen: Ansichten schwacher Intelligenzen, die keine