... but resigned the next year in protest against the practice of vivisection in the university laboratories. Ruskin, with a family history of mental disturbance, had periodic bouts with insanity beginning in about 1870, and remained an invalid from 1889 until his death on January 20, 1900, in Coniston, Lancashire. His later works include Lectures on Architecture and Painting, Lectures on the Political Economy of Art, and Fors Clavigera, a series of letters to the workers of Britain that ... was a philosophy of domestic life. The craftsmen believed that the occupants of the movement's furni...

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