John Ruskin was a highly principled man who lived and died by his views on the evil of Capital and machinery. These lectures make interesting reading, unorthodox and brave, especially considering who he was addressing each time.
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. (Wikipedia)