CHAPTER XVIII

WE ARE EDUCATED BY OUR INTIMACIES

_Part II.—Further Affinities_

1. What chances had Ruskin to learn the use of material?

2. What do we hear of the intimacy of either boy with natural objects?

3. Describe Ruskin’s flower studies.

4. His pebble studies.

5. Show that these became a life-shaping intimacy.

6. Upon what books did Ruskin grow up?

7. What is the first mention we get of his insatiate delight in a book?

8. What qualities in Byron delighted him?

9. Describe Wordsworth’s delight in the _Arabian Nights_.

10. What is Wordsworth’s plea for ‘romance’ in education?

11. What does he say in favour of liberty to range among books?

12. Describe his first enthralment by poetry.

13. Show that Ruskin’s historic sense appears to be always connected with places.

14. How does he betray some want of living touch with the past?

15. Show that Wordsworth, too, was aloof.

16. Show that the knowledge ‘learned in schools’ laid little hold of either boy.

17. Compare the experiences of the two boys with regard to chances of comradeship.

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