given to sentiment, but of middle age, and
great practical sense, told me, by accident, and wholly without
reference to the subject now before us, that he never could enter
London from his country parsonage but with closed eyes, lest the sight
of the blocks of houses which the railroad intersected in the suburbs
should unfit him, by the horror of it, for his day's work.

Now, it is not possible--and I repeat to you, only in more deliberate
assertion, what I wrote just twenty-two years ago in the last chapter
of the _Seven Lamps of Architecture_--it is not possible to have any
right morality, happiness, or art, in any country where the cities are
thus built, or thus, let me rather say, clotted and coagulated; spots
of a dreadful mildew, spreading by patches and blotches over the
country they consume. You must have lovely cities, crystallized, not
coagulated, into form; limited in size, and not casting out the scum
and scurf of them into an encircling eruption of shame, but girded
each with its sacred pomoerium, and with garlands of gardens full of
blossoming trees and softly guided streams.

[187] In _Modern Painters_, vol. 1.

[188] The quotation is from Vasari's account of Angelico's Last
Judgment (now in the Accademia at Florence). [Cook and Wedderbum.]

[189] _Song of Solomon_ i, 6.

[190] Cf. _Classical Landscape_, pp. 92-93.

[191] _Isaiah_, ii, 4; _Micah_ iv, 3; _Joel_ iii, 10.

[192] The name of St. George, the "Earthworker," or "Husbandman."
[Ruskin.]

[193] _Luke_ xxiv, 35.

[194] Virgil, _AEneid_, 3, 209. _seqq_. [Ruskin.]

[195] _Acts_ xiv, 17.

[196] _Psalms_ i, 3.

[197] _Genesis_ xxiv, 15, 16 and xxix, 10; _Exodus_ ii, 16; _John_
iv, 11.

[198] Osborne Gordon. [Ruskin.]

ART AND HISTORY

ATHENA ERGANE

This short selection is taken from the volume entitled _The Queen
of the Air_, in which Ruskin, fascinated by the deep significance
of the Greek myths and realizing the religious sincerity
underlying them, attempts to interpret those that cluster about
Athena. The book was published June 22, 1869. It is divided into
three "Lectures," parts of which actually were delivered as
lectures on different occasions, entitled respectively "Athena
Chalinitis" (Athena in the Heavens), "Athena Keramitis" (Athena
in the Earth), "Athena Ergane" (Athena in the Heart). The first
lecture is the only one which keeps to the ti