was chiefly of Beauty. It was essentially of Rightness and
Strength, founded on Forethought: the principal character of Greek
art is not beauty, but design: and the Dorian Apollo-worship and
Athenian Virgin-worship are both expressions of adoration of divine
wisdom and purity. Next to these great deities, rank, in power over
the national mind, Dionysus and Ceres, the givers of human strength
and life; then, for heroic example, Hercules. There is no
Venus-worship among the Greeks in the great times: and the Muses
are essentially teachers of Truth, and of its harmonies. [Ruskin.]

[215] Tetzel's trading in Papal indulgences aroused Luther to the
protest which ended in the Reformation.

[216] _Matthew_ xxi, 12.

[217] _Jeremiah_ xvii, 11 (best in Septuagint and Vulgate). "As the
partridge, fostering what she brought not forth, so he that getteth
riches not by right shall leave them in the midst of his days, and
at his end shall be a fool." [Ruskin.]

[218] Meaning, fully, "We have brought our pigs to it." [Ruskin.]

[219] Cf. _Hamlet_, 5. 1. 306.

[220] Referring to a lecture on _Modern Manufacture and Design_,
delivered at Bradford, March 1, 1859 published later as Lecture III
in _The Two Paths_.

[221] See Wordsworth's _Rob Roy's Grave_, 39-40.

[222] 1 Kings x, 27.

[223] A beautiful ruin in Yorkshire.

[224] Cf. Tennyson's _The Brook_.

[225] _Genesis_ vi, 2.

[226] _Deuteronomy_ xxxii, 5.

[227] _Daniel_ iii, 1.

[228] _Proverbs_ iii, 17.

[229] _Acts_ vii, 48.

LIFE AND ITS ARTS

This lecture, the full title of which is "The Mystery of Life and
its Arts," was delivered in Dublin on May 13, 1868. It composed
one of a series of afternoon lectures on various subjects,
religion excepted, arranged by some of the foremost residents in
Dublin. The latter half of the lecture is included in the present
volume of selections. The first publication of the lecture was as
an additional part to a revised edition of _Sesame and Lilies_ in
1871. Ruskin took exceptional care in writing "The Mystery of
Life": he once said in conversation, "I put into it all that I
know," and in the preface to it when published he tells us that
certain passages of it "contain the best expression I have yet
been able to put in words of what, so far as is within my power, I
mean henceforward both to do myself, and