Note 140 — [From the "New Year's Address and Messages to Blackfriars Bible Class." Aberdeen, 1873.] "ACT, ACT IN THE LIVING PRESENT."[136] Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Christmas Eve, '72.
Reading edition
For further notice by Mr. Ruskin of this maxim, which occurs in Mr. Herbert Spencer's "Study of Sociology," p. 205, see the article on "Home and its Economies" in the Contemporary Review of May, 1873, and "Bibliotheca Pastorum," p. xxxiv.