CHAPTER XVIII

WE ARE EDUCATED BY OUR INTIMACIES

_Part II.—Further Affinities_

Affinity for material: Ruskin’s opportunities—Intimacy with natural objects—Ruskin’s flower-studies—His pebble studies—A life-shaping intimacy—Insatiate delight in books, Ruskin’s, Wordsworth’s—‘_They must_ have their food’ of romance—Children must range at will among books—Words, ‘a passion and a power’—Ruskin’s _local_ historic sense—Living touch with the past necessary—Wordsworth and Ruskin aloof from the past—Knowledge learned in schools—Comradeship, 194

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