Abstract
Problem: During his Professorship, Ruskin at Oxford inaugurated his program of socialized Art, which he later developed broadly, and for which he is known in history. |From birth to manhood, John Ruskin possessed an animating love for Art in Nature. Specifically, his native fondness for sincere Beauty and his acquired thirst for Truth constituted a definite progression through his youth toward a mature philosophy. This Nature wisdom-- knowledge of how to live happily and dutifully—Ruskin yearned to work out for the amelioration of humanity in the confused society known as the Victorian Age. When appointed Slade Professor of Art at Oxford University, he realized an opportunity for the fulfillment of his desire; and, in turn, this undertaking enlarged his genius to the utmost of its possibilities.