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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: what he believed to be true economic ideals.
There is nothing of all this in "The King of the Golden
River." Unlike his other works, it was written merely to entertain.
Scarcely that, since it was not written for publication at all, but
to meet a challenge set him by a young girl.
The circumstance is interesting. After taking his degree at
Oxford, Ruskin was threatened with consumption and hurried away
from the chill and damp of England to the south of Europe. After
two years of fruitful travel and study he came back improved in
health but not strong, and often depressed in spirit. It was at
this time that the Guys, Scotch friends of his father and mother,
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