The Crown of Wild Olive
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The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War (1866) is a series of essays by by John Ruskin.
- ‘the creative, or foundational war, in which the natural restlessness and love of contest among men are disciplined, by consent, into modes of beautiful - though it may be fatal - play’.
- Two ‘races; one of workers, and the other of players, proudly idle, and continually therefore needing recreation, in which they use the productive and laborious orders partly as their cattle, and partly as their puppets or pieces in the game of death’.
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