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Transcriber's note:

      Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_).

      Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=).

      The text includes a modest amount of Greek, which has
      been transliterated here and enclosed by plus signs
      (e.g., +sophia+). Ruskin abandoned the Greek characters
      in later lectures, transliterating himself. These
      appear as printed (not enclosed by plus signs).

      Footnotes have been located to the end of each numbered
      paragraph.

      Consult the transcriber's note at the end of this text
      for details.





THE EAGLE'S NEST.

Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art,
Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872

by

JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D.,

Honorary Student of Christ Church, and Honorary Fellow
of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Twelfth Thousand







London
George Allen, 156, Charing Cross Road
1900

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PREFACE.


The following Lectures have been written, not with less care, but with
less pains, than any in former courses, because no labour could have
rendered them exhaustive statements of their subjects, and I wished,
therefore, to take from them every appearance of pretending to be so:
but the assertions I have made are entirely deliberate, though their
terms are unstudied; and the one which to the general reader will appear
most startling, that the study of anatomy is destructive to art, is
instantly necessary in explanation of the system adopted for the
direction