John Ruskin (1 Jan 1819 Jahr – 20 Jan 1900 Jahr)

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A key figure from the year 1870 is that of John Ruskin, seemingly an innocuous figure because
he was the first professor of art at Oxford, but he brought the doctrine that the British elite really
had a duty to export its own world view to the rest of the world. And his key student whom he
inspired was Cecil Rhodes, who became fabulously wealthy in Southern Africa. Cecil Rhodes
wrote secret diaries and formed secret societies. In 1891, after 16 years of planning, his main
secret society was formed – the Rhodes Scholarships are part of that society. Oxford members
of the Rhodes network were the likes of Lord Toynbee and Lord Milner, well-known geostrategists. In Cambridge there was the future Foreign Secretary, Lord Grey and Lord Esher. In
London there was the leading journalist at the time, W.T. Stead, and initiates and members of

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