 Millais' John Ruskin 1854 “As the conscience, the will, the reason, is ineffective till it be nourished with its proper food, exercised in its proper functions, so of the soul; and its chamber is dull, with cobwebbed doors and clouded windows, until it awake to its proper life; not quite empty, though, for there is the nascent soul;” * “Equally strong, equally natural, equally sure of awakening a responsive stir in the young soul, is the divinely implanted principle of curiosity. The child wants to know; wants to know incessantly, desperately; asks all manner of questions about everything he comes across, plagues his elders and betters, and is told not to bother, and to be a good boy and not ask questions.” * “It rests with us to give the awakening idea and then to form the habit of thought and of life.” * “We hope so to awaken and direct mind hunger that every man's mind will look after itself.” * “The fact is, we are all, and always, asleep, through our lives; and it is only by pinching ourselves very hard that we ever come to see, or understand, anything. At least it is not always we who pinch ourselves; sometimes other people pinch us; which I suppose is very good of them, - or other things, which I suppose is very proper of them. But it is a sad life; made up chiefly of naps and pinches.” ~ Ruskin Examen: What am I newly awake to? Who does the awakening? ~~~~~~~ As the conscience: Charlotte M. Mason, Home Education, 1:343. Equally strong, equally natural: Charlotte M. Mason, Parents and Children, 2:221. It rests with: Charlotte M. Mason, School Education, 3:81. We hope so: Charlotte M. Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, 6:281. The fact is: “The Ethics of the Dust, by John Ruskin,” accessed June 4, 2024, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4701/4701-h/4701-h.htm Lecture IX. Day 10 Awaken meditation/100 Days copyright Laurie Bestvater 2025
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