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The Life of John Ruskin

CHAPTER III
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You forgot only the first chapter of 'Aglaia';--don't forget; and be a good boy for the future.
"The Geology Book wasn't _Jukes_; I found it again in the Magazine,--reviewed there: 'Phillips,'[9] is there such a name?
It has ag'n escaped me.

I have a notion to come out actually some day soon; and take a serious Lecture from you on what you really know, and can give me some intelligible outline of, ab't the Rocks,--_bones_ of our poor old Mother; wh'h have always been venerable and strange to me.

Next to nothing of rational could I ever learn of the subject....
[Footnote 9: "Jukes,"-- Mr.J.B.

Jukes, F.R.S., with whom Ruskin had been discussing in _The Reader_.

"Phillips," the Oxford Professor of Geology, and a friend of Ruskin's.] "Yours ever, "T.


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