Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of the stagnating atmosphere of materialism and dead orthodoxy into the region of the ideal. With the Master of Balliol, we believe that 'no English writer has done more to elevate and purify our ideas of life and to make us conscious that the things of the spirit are real, and that in the last resort there is no other reality. .Hector Carsewell Macpherson
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John Ruskin was a British critic, essayist, and historian. He was a man of many talents and interests, but he is best known as a writer. Ruskin was a major contributor to Victorian aesthetics. His works include "The King of the Golden River", "Unto This Last", and his magnum opus, "Sesame and Lilies".
In 1869, he helped found the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of painters that would go on to have a great impact on art throughout the ages. The quote above comes from one of his most famous books, "Sesame and Lilies". In this book, he describes how growing up in a time where all things were materialistic and dead to the spirit had caused him to develop a passion for beauty in all its forms.
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