Excerpt from The Works of John Ruskin, Vol. 39: General Index Among the innumerable schemes, which came the thicker as his power of fulfilling them diminished, was one for a series of summary chapters in which he should take various subjects - such as theology or natural philosophy - and give explanatory references to the several passages which he had written upon those topics, indicating their modes of connexion.6 I want you, he wrote to a friend in 1879. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.