Notes
1. It could be protested that Ruskin’s educational plans for the Guild of St. George were not laid out to ‘state’ dimensions, yet clearly the creation of this communal order resulted from his despair at not influencing English society on a broader scale, and the community, no matter the size, represented, for him, the totalising principle of organisation. It framed the meaning of aesthetic experience and self-understanding while strongly discouraging heterodoxy.