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By:John Ruskin
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Modern Painters - Volume III. - By John Ruskin - PREFACE - As this preface is nearly all about myself, no one need take the trouble of reading it, unless he happens to be desirous of knowing what I, at least, am bound to state the circumstances which have caused the long delay of the work, as well as the alterations which will be noticed in its form. The first and second volumes were written to check, as far as I could, the attacks upon Turner which prevented the public from honouring his genius, at the time when his power was greatest. The check was partially given, but too late Turner was seized by painful illness not long after the second volume appeared his works, towards the close of the year 1845, showed a conclusive failure of power and I saw that nothing remained for me to write, but his epitaph. The critics had done their proper and appointed work they had embittered, more than those who did not know Turner intimately could have believed possible, the closing years of his life and had blinded the world in general as it appears ordained by Fate that the world always should be blinded to the presence of a great spirit among them, till the hour of its departure. With them, and their successful work, I had nothing more to do the account of gain and loss, of gifts and gratitude, between Turner and his country-men, was for ever closed..............

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