...His great work as political economist was to turn the thought of his countrymen from a quantitative to a qualitative ecomony...
... Approaching social and economic structure rather as an artist than as a scientist, he felt his way down to the roots of many a problem, and then turned on it the illuminating lantern of his anaylytic genius. His teaching was genuinely revolutionary. For he saw that the social economic system was rotten to its roots with the moral cancer of a wrong motive, and that no concessions, modifications or alleviations would restore health. Nothing short of a complete transformation of its structure and a new spirit would suffice...
Ruskin the Prophet, JA Hobson, page 98
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