sentences:  In 1868, his tour took him to Abbeville, and in the following year he was in Verona (studying tombs for the Arundel Society) and Venice (where he was joined by William Holman Hunt).Yet increasingly Ruskin concentrated his energies on fiercely attacking industrial capitalism, and the utilitarian theories of political economy underpinning it.He repudiated his sometimes grandiloquent style, writing now in plainer, simpler language, to communicate his message straightforwardly.