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Sesame and Lilies-Part20_John Ruskin(1819-1900)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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nature of all evil; you will discern by the various kinds of

resistance, what is really the fault and main antagonism to good;



also you will find the most unexpected helps and profound lessons

given, and truths will come thus down to us which the speculation of



all our lives would never have raised us up to. You will find

nearly every educational problem solved, as soon as you truly want



to do something; everybody will become of use in their own fittest

way, and will learn what is best for them to know in that use.



Competitive examination will then, and not till then, be wholesome,

because it will be daily, and calm, and in practice; and on these



familiar arts, and minute, but certain and serviceable knowledges,

will be surely edified and sustained the greater arts and splendid



theoretical sciences.

But much more than this. On such holy and simple practice will be



founded, indeed, at last, an infallible religion. The greatest of

all the mysteries of life, and the most terrible, is the corruption



of even the sincerest religion, which is not daily founded on

rational, effective, humble, and helpful action. Helpful action,



observe! for there is just one law, which, obeyed, keeps all

religions pure--forgotten, makes them all false. Whenever in any



religious faith, dark or bright, we allow our minds to dwell upon

the points in which we differ from other people, we are wrong, and



in the devil's power. That is the essence of the Pharisee's

thanksgiving--"Lord, I thank Thee that I am not as other men are."



At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in

what we differ from other people, but in what we agree with them;



and the moment we find we can agree as to anything that should be

done, kind or good, (and who but fools couldn't?) then do it; push



at it together: you can't quarrel in a side-by-side push; but the

moment that even the best men stop pushing, and begin talking, they



mistake their pugnacity for piety, and it's all over. I will not

speak of the crimes which in past times have been committed in the



name of Christ, nor of the follies which are at this hour held to be

consistent with obedience to Him; but I WILL speak of the morbid



corruption and waste of vital power in religious sentiment, by which

the pure strength of that which should be the guiding soul of every



nation, the splendour of its youthfulmanhood, and spotless light of

its maidenhood, is averted or cast away. You may see continually



girls who have never been taught to do a single useful thing

thoroughly; who cannot sew, who cannot cook, who cannot cast an



account, nor prepare a medicine, whose whole life has been passed

either in play or in pride; you will find girls like these, when



they are earnest-hearted, cast all their innate passion of religious

spirit, which was meant by God to support them through the



irksomeness of daily toil, into grievous and vain meditation over

the meaning of the great Book, of which no syllable was ever yet to



be understood but through a deed; all the instinctivewisdom and

mercy of their womanhood made vain, and the glory of their pure



consciences warped into fruitless agony concerning questions which

the laws of common serviceable life would have either solved for



them in an instant, or kept out of their way. Give such a girl any

true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night,



with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been

the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm



will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent

peace.



So with our youths. We once taught them to make Latin verses, and

called them educated; now we teach them to leap and to row, to hit a



ball with a bat, and call them educated. Can they plough, can they

sow, can they plant at the right time, or build with a steady hand?



Is it the effort of their lives to be chaste, knightly, faithful,




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