The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

Fors Clavigera

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Original Citation

Ruskin, John. "Letter the Sixty-Ninth." Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. London: Hazell, Watson & Viney/Kent: George Allen, 1 Sept. 1876.

Current Citation

Ruskin, John. Fors Clavigera IV-VI. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 28, Cambridge University Press, 2010, letter 67.