Note 36 — Chapter XVI · THE INVENTORS, CIVIL ENGINEERS, AND MECHANICS OF ENGLAND, AND ENGLISH PROGRESS.

“To know the ‘use’ either of land or tools you must know what useful things can be grown from the one and made with the other. And therefore to know what is useful, and what useless, and be skilful to provide the one, and wise to scorn the other, is the first need for all industrious men. Wherefore, I propose that schools should be established wherein the use of land and tools shall be taught conclusively—in other words, the sciences of agriculture (with associated river and sea culture), and the noble arts and exercises of humanity.—“Fors Clavigera,” p. 302. Part. III. By John Ruskin, LL.D. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1881.