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It was John Ruskin's lifelong conviction that greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. And what he goes on to say is crucial to any understanding of the priorities of his spiritual and intellectual world: Hundreds of people can talk for who can think, but thousands can think for who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion,-all in one (V 333).1 An examination of that triad is the underlying purpose of this essay. But it is important, by way of preamble, to insist that Ruskin was not a philosopher nor, though he pretended on occasions to be more systematic and logical than his opponents, did he depend much upon the rigours and consistencies of formal thinking.2 He told a Cambridge audience in 1858:
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