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MR. RUSKIN'S DOGMATISM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Have

we indeed found our Iarpes3s zip/ Tsis spuvis, who is i7rwT4frce.s, Ti xprierTou irovilpdy zio■ 1.4ccOnpigiredp, the existence of whom Socrates found it so bard to believe in, in Plato's " Prota- gores "? With all our affection and respect for Mr. Ruskin, I think we shall agree with you in imitating Socrates in incredulity, when such large claims are put forward as those of this our dogmatic 44 Censor Morum."—I am, Sir, &c.,