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Ruskin
John Ruskin (1819–1900) was a British art critic, social thinker, writer, and polymath who became one of the most influential cultural figures of the Victorian era. Born in London to a wealthy sherry merchant, Ruskin was educated at Oxford University, where he developed a passion for art, architecture, and social reform. He was called the teacher of the new imperialism. Ruskin’s ideas profoundly influenced Cecil Rhodes, shaping his imperialist ambitions and vision for British colonial expansion. The connection is intellectual and ideological, rooted in Ruskin’s writings and lectures, which Rhodes avidly absorbed during his time at Oxford University.
Ruskin said: The only way we can maintain the British Empire, which he considered the most superb empire that’s ever existed in the world, is to spread it to the lower classes.
One man, teaching at Oxford, led the charge in teaching Oxford undergraduates the new imperialism. Professor Quigly explains, “The new imperialism after 1870 was quite different in tone from that which the little Englanders had opposed earlier. The chief changes were that it was that it was justified on grounds of moral duty and of social reform. And not as earlier, on grounds of missionary activity and territorial advantage. The man most responsible for this change was John Ruskin. Ruskin spoke to the Oxford undergraduates as members of the privileged ruling class. He told them they were the possessors of a magnificent tradition of education, beauty, rule of law, freedom, decency and self discipline. But that this tradition could not be saved and did not deserve to be saved unless it could be extended to the lower classes in England itself and into the non-English classes throughout the world. If this precious tradition were not extended to these two great majorities, the minority of upper class Englishmen would ultimately be submerged by these majorities and the tradition, lost.”
Based on these justifications, the same immoral policies of conquest and subjugation found new support. The empire was now not only a matter of moral duty but a matter of self preservation. If the ruling elite failed to expand the empire their civilized way of life would be lost to the unwashed masses.
Cecil Rhodes
This powerful message had a sensational impact on one of Ruskins students, The student was so moved, he copied Ruskin’s lecture word for word and kept it with him for 30 years. He, with a handful of Ruskin devotees, went on to establish and fund the network referred to as one of the most important in the 20th century.
Cecil Rhodes created a secret society to control the world. He set up the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford. The African nation of Rhodesia was named after him. He owned the De Beers diamond monopoly in South Africa.
The most significant thing he accomplished doesn’t bear his name and remains almost completely unknown. The secret society he founded in 1891 and its subsequent instruments such as Chatham House and the Council of Foreign Relations continue to operate to this day.
Influence in US Politics
In 1913, prior to the passage of the Federal Reserve Act President Wilson's The New Freedom was published, in which he revealed:
"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U. S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
On November 21, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt wrote a letter to Col. Edward Mandell House, President Woodrow Wilson's close advisor:
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson... "
That there is such a thing as a cabal of power brokers who control government behind the scenes has been detailed several times in this century by credible sources. Professor Carroll Quigley was Bill Clinton's mentor at Georgetown University. President Clinton has publicly paid homage to the influence Professor Quigley had on his life. In Quigley's magnum opus Tragedy and Hope (1966), he states:
"There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international ... network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies... but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known."
Even talk show host Rush Limbaugh, an outspoken critic of anyone claiming a push for global government, said on his February 7, 1995 program:
"You see, if you amount to anything in Washington these days, it is because you have been plucked or handpicked from an Ivy League school -- Harvard, Yale, Kennedy School of Government -- you've shown an aptitude to be a good Ivy League type, and so you're plucked so-to-speak, and you are assigned success. You are assigned a certain role in government somewhere, and then your success is monitored and tracked, and you go where the pluckers and the handpickers can put you."
On May 4, 1993, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) president Leslie Gelb said on The Charlie Rose Show that:
"... you [Charlie Rose] had me on [before] to talk about the New World Order! I talk about it all the time. It's one world now. The Council [CFR] can find, nurture, and begin to put people in the kinds of jobs this country needs. And that's going to be one of the major enterprises of the Council under me."
Previous CFR chairman, John J. McCloy (1953-70), actually said they have been doing this since the 1940s (and before).
The thrust towards global government can be well-documented but at the end of the twentieth century it does not look like a traditional conspiracy in the usual sense of a secret cabal of evil men meeting clandestinely behind closed doors. Rather, it is a "networking" of like-minded individuals in high places to achieve a common goal, as described in Marilyn Ferguson's 1980 insider classic, The Aquarian Conspiracy.