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The Ethics of the Dust

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The Ethics of the Dust

John Ruskin

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Crystals give the lectures in the strangest of Ruskin's works: ten talks to schoolgirls on crystallization that keep turning into lessons on order, patience, and work. The valley of diamonds, the pyramid builders, the crystal life. Mineralogy as moral theater, performed for an audience of children. Science and conscience, grown into one another.

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34 chapters

  1. 1THE ETHICS OF THE DUST
  2. 2Ten Lectures To Little Housewives On The Elements Of Crystallization
  3. 3DEDICATION.
  4. 4CHRISTMAS, 1875.
  5. 5PERSONAE
  6. 6PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
  7. 7PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
  8. 8BRANTWOOD:
  9. 9PREFACE.
  10. 10LECTURE 1. — THE VALLEY OF DIAMONDS
  11. 11LECTURE 2. — THE PYRAMID BUILDERS
  12. 12LECTURE 3. — THE CRYSTAL LIFE
  13. 13LECTURE 4. — THE CRYSTAL ORDERS
  14. 14LECTURE 5. — CRYSTAL VIRTUES
  15. 15LECTURE 6. — CRYSTAL QUARRELS
  16. 16LECTURE 7. — HOME VIRTUES
  17. 17LECTURE 8. — CRYSTAL CAPRICE
  18. 18LECTURE 9. — CRYSTAL SORROWS

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