At the turn of the century a young littérateur in Paris and an Indian lawyer in Johannesburg discovered Ruskin, and in so doing discovered themselves. He will enable my spirit, Proust wrote in the first fervors of discipleship, to enter regions to which formerly it had no access, for he is the gate. Gandhi wrote in his autobiography that reading Unto This Last had awakened some of his deepest convie tions and transformed his life. The list might be extended William Morris and Ezra Pound, Tolstoy and Clement Attlee, Bernard Shaw and Frank Lloyd Wright — but the additions only heighten one's perplexity that a single mind could so decisively in?uence such diverse men.