And he ended by declaring that it would be the ruin of his business and of his peace of mind if the name of Ruskin were mixed up with Radical electioneering: not that he was unwilling to suffer martyrdom for a cause in which he believed, but he did not believe in the movements afoot--neither the Tailors' Cooperative Society, in which their friend F.J.Furnivall was interested, nor in any outcome of Chartism or Chartist principles.

And so for a time the matter dropped.
In 1854, the Rev.F.D.Maurice founded the Working Men's College.

Mr.
Furnivall sent the circulars to John Ruskin; who thereupon wrote to Maurice, and offered his services.

At the opening lecture on October 31, 1854, at St.Martin's Hall, Long Acre, Furnivall distributed to all comers a reprint of the chapter "On the Nature of Gothic," which we have already noticed as a statement of the conclusions drawn from the study of art respecting the conditions under which the life of the workman should be regulated.

Ruskin thus appeared as contributing, so to say, the manifesto of the movement.
He took charge from the commencement of the drawing-classes--first at 31 Red Lion Square, and afterwards at Great Ormond Street; also super-intending classes taught by Messrs.