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The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century

by John Ruskin

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Clouds become a matter of argument in John Ruskin's two lectures, delivered at the London Institution in February 1884. Drawing on decades of watching the sky, he claims that a troubling new kind of cloud has changed the appearance of weather in England, France and Italy. He contrasts its persistent gloom with the light, colour and movement he remembers in earlier skies. Passages from Homer and Byron help him compare his observations with descriptions preserved in literature.

The lectures bring close attention to nature together with religious reflection and sharp criticism of scientific explanations. In the accompanying notes, Ruskin challenges accounts of steam and water particles, asking how clouds acquire their visible forms and boundaries. Readers interested in environmental writing can follow both his alarm at atmospheric change and his insistence that the sky deserves patient observation. His claims are presented through a distinctive personal argument rather than a detached catalogue of weather.

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John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era and an influential social thinker whose ideas on art, labor, and society shaped movements from the Pre-Raphaelites to the welfare state.

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