Footnote 1, Chapter 10, of the author's Ruskin's Poetic Argument: The Design of the Major Works, which Cornell University Press published in 1985. It appears in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
indicates a link to material not in the original print version. [GPL]. He makes the same analogy in one of his letters to Winnington, which incidentally shows the slight sadism intermingled with playful geniality with which he addressed the children: "Now when the rivers are young, they are very noisy . . ., and their education is conducted by a great mountain called Ingleborough in a very severe way. The rocks of Ingleborough are full of deep holes; and whenever a young river gets quite unruly it is sent into a hole -- as little girls used to be put in corners -- and after running for a quarter of an hour or so in the dark, it comes out again, looking much subdued and quite quiet" (XVIII, lxviii). Ruskin sent a copy of this letter to his father.
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