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IF it be true, and it can scarcely be disputed, that nothing has been for centuries consecrated by public admiration, without possessing in a high degree some kind of sterling excellence, it is not because the average intellect and feeling of the majority of the public are competent in any way to distinguish what is really excellent, but because all erroneous opinion transitory: so that while the fancies and feelings which deny deserved honour and award what is undue have neither root nor strength sufficient to maintain consistent testimony for a length of time, the opinions formed on right grounds by those few who are in reality competent judges, being necessarily stable, communicate themselves gradually from mind to mind, descending lower as they extend wider, until they leaven the whole lump, and rule by absolute authority, even where the grounds and reasons for them cannot be understood.
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- Title Modern Painters Part One
- Author John Ruskin
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 332
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Kessinger Publishing
- Date 2005-03-01
- ISBN 9781417945481 / 1417945486
- Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.74 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.88 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Painters, Aesthetics
- Dewey Decimal Code 750
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