IV 



A LIBERAL EDUCATIOX; AND WHERE 



TO FIND IT 



[18G8] 



The business which the Soutli London Work- 

 ing Men's College has undertaken is a great work; 

 indeed, I might say, that Education, with which 

 that college proposes to grapple, is the greatest 

 work of all those which lie ready to a man's hand 

 just at present. 



And, at length, this fact is becoming generally 

 recognised. You cannot go anywhere without 

 hearing a buzz of more or less confused and con- 

 tradictory talk on this subject — nor can you fail 

 to notice that, in one point at any rate, there is 

 a very decided advance upon like discussions in 

 former davs. Nobodv outside the agricultural 

 interest now dares to say that education is a bad 

 thing. If any representative of the once large 

 and powerful party, which, in former days, pro- 

 claimed this opinion, still exists in the semi-fossil 

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