THE GUILD PROGRAM

This throws a new light/perspective on the Guild program

It is not a simply acrackpot scheme of an amiable eccentric but the first proposal of an economic scheme of regrowth, with the intention of avoiding, amongst other objectives, a catastrophic climate change  

In the 1870's Ruskin established the Guild

The Guild has several levels of meaning

On the first level of meaning it was right some of the social evils of the day and make England a happier place to live

(Quote Fors 1 ? on this...

and then quote Fors on environmental problems...)  

But is we put the guild in he perspective of the climate change that Ruskin saw coming is was to garanty the very existence of a livable/live  planet.

It is only if we put the Guild program in the perspective of this climate change, and the necessity for degrowth, that we understand its deeper meaning , to which we must add Ruskin emphasis on the limitation of weath, (Fors ?) .

Ruskin program  is to (lever) the tenth of the wealth of the members of the Guild to buy land to give it to well deserving labourers who will be deviated from furnishing labour  (la main d'oeuvre) for the factories.          

These will be regrouped into company units with they own musems and schools

(So purpose is not only more just as in Guild program  but survival of planet )  

Put following in a separate chapter on Fors   Ruskin sets up a reasonably reasonable plan, and then spends a lot of time in literary hep talk

For instance in letter 75, where he advocates looking at stars with  a natural eye, after a development o  the sacred life that is in all animals,  and encourages gentleman to all have a horse, a dog, and a bird 
This means he loves seeing birds being free to fly about, and so he will have a heart to preserve waters, forests and    

"To be friends with the falcon must mean that you love to see to soar; that is that you love fresh air and the fields  etc...pursue this quote 
(Fresh air theme not soiled by the storm cloud)  


Replace this in proceeding chapter   on Oxford lectures During all this time he pursued for several years with some interruptions, his Oxford lectures 

Under the headings of conventional art historical categories,Between fairly long developments of a fairly conventional nature on the history of art,    he kept up a hard hitting campaign against the dragon of the Garden of Hesperides and its avatars 

He started off the Oxford lecture with an inaugural with 

(find text platonic text at deginning of anthology     )

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PLACE : it is only if one understands this (that R is talking about climate change ) that one can fully understand the rest of his work ...