Everything about Unto This Last totally explained
Unto This Last is an essay on
economy by
John Ruskin, first published in December
1860 in the monthly journal
Cornhill Magazine in four articles. Ruskin says himself that these articles were "very violently criticized", forcing the publisher to stop the publication after four months. Subscribers sent protest letters. But Ruskin countered the attack and published the four articles in a book in May
1862.
This essay is very critical of
capitalist economists of the 18th and 19th century. In this sense, Ruskin is a precursor of
social economy.
Gandhi's paraphrase
Unto This Last had a very important impact on
Gandhi's philosophy. He discovered the book in March
1904 through
Henry Polak, whom he'd met in a vegetarian restaurant in
South Africa. Polak was chief editor of the
Johannesburg paper
The Critic. Gandhi decided immediately not only to change his own life according to Ruskin's teaching, but also to publish his own newspaper,
Indian Opinion, in a farm where everybody would get the same salary, without distinction of function, race or nationality, which for that time, was quite revolutionary. Thus Gandhi created
Phoenix Settlement.
Gandhi translated
Unto This Last into
Gujarati in
1908 under the title of
Sarvodaya ("well being of all").
Valji Govindji Desai translated it back to English in
1951 under the title of
Unto This Last: A Paraphrase.
In
Unto This Last, Gandhi found an important part of his social and economic ideas.
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