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Updated: May 31, 2025
And yet, since Ruskin ceased, no one has really formulated this in a convincing form. And even Ruskin's famous dictum, that labor without art brutalizes, has always been interpreted as if art could only be a sense of beauty or joy in one's own work, and not a sense of companionship with all other workers.
"Also, there's your gold-tooth mystery solved! "As a disguise, the gold tooth is admirable. I mean a solid, complete tooth of gold, garish in the front part of the mouth. "It unfailingly changes the expression; frequently, it degrades and brutalizes the face. Try it. "Using my crooked nose as an every-day precaution, I always straightened it for night work.
"Well, it's even possible that in their furious preoccupation they let the schooner come close without spying her. Ah, Captain, you can hardly imagine you, fresh from a civilized country, where folks must keep up appearances, while they prey upon one another how this lust of gold brutalizes a man when, as here, he pursues it without restraint. And what, after all, will gold purchase?"
Then they sat down on the grass under the hedge, and she told her story, interspersed with Lily's horrified comments. When it was all told, the girl still sat listening. She heard Radbourn's calm, slow voice again. It helped her not to hate Burns; it helped her to pity and understand him: "You must remember that such toil brutalizes a man; it makes him callous, selfish, unfeeling, necessarily.
King, of the New York American, makes the following just comment on the barbarity of the above paragraph: "Would any one, in reading this paragraph from an evening paper, conjecture that these 'eight rubbers and riders, that together with a horse, are merely mentioned as a 'loss' to their owner, were human beings immortal as the writer who thus brutalizes them, and perhaps cherishing life as much?
The army is ruled by fear and it is this constant fear that brutalizes men not naturally brutal. The Sergeant-Major began to call out the fatigue parties. We felt relieved and thought that at last we would begin to move and get warm. "Fall out Sergeant Waley's party!" A score of men splashed across the mud and lined up under Sergeant Waley. "Fall out Sergeant Hemingway's party!"
It spoils all the innocence and fine neutrality of your conscience; it makes you headstrong against objections and red rags; it stupefies, animalizes, and brutalizes, when in the struggle with danger, slander, suspicion, expulsion, and even worse consequences of enmity, ye have at last to play your last card as protectors of truth upon earth as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors! and you of all people, ye knights of the sorrowful countenance, Messrs Loafers and Cobweb-spinners of the spirit!
The room seemed lit up; and it was only through a cloud that one could see the fearful harpy fixed and dumb on her red sofa, her yellow eyes betraying the servile sentiments, inspired by misfortune, or caused by some vice beneath whose servitude one has fallen as beneath a tyrant who brutalizes one with the flagellations of his despotism.
It is not theft nor robbery nor murder nor fornication, but falsehood, the special falsehood of hypocrisy, which corrupts men, brutalizes them and makes them vindictive, destroys all distinction between right and wrong in their conscience, deprives them of what is the true meaning of all real human life, and debars them from all progress toward perfection.
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