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What are the criteria that Ruskin feels that readers should fulfill to make themselves fit for the company of the Dead?

Readers who are hard working and have merit are the ones who are fit for the company of the Dead. Unlike the society, wealth or name or ambition cannot gain one the companionship but rather love and rising up to their thoughts can give one entry.


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Ruskin’s insistence on looking intensely at words, and assuring oneself of meaning, syllable by syllable—nay, letter by letter.