Note 141 — [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.

I have to state that this expression regarding Stuart Mill was not intended for separate publication; and to explain that in a subsequent but unpublished letter Mr. Ruskin explained it to refer to Mill's utter deficiency in the powers of the imagination.—The last words of this letter will be made clearer by noting that the pamphlet dealt with physical, as well as mental, diet.