Ill 



A LIBERAL EDUCATION ; AND 

 WHERE TO FIND IT. 



THE business which the South London Working 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 recognized. 

 You cannot go anywhere without hearing a buzz of more or less 

 confused and contradictory 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 days. Nobody 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, proclaimed this opinion, still exists 

 in a semi-fossil state, he keeps his thoughts to himself. In fact, 

 there is a chorus of voices, almost distressing in their harmony, 

 raised in favour of the doctrine that education is the great 

 panacea for human troubles, and that, if the country is not 

 shortly to go to the dogs, everybody must be educated. 



The politicians tell us, &quot;You must educate the masses because 

 they are going to be masters.&quot; The clergy join in the cry for 

 education, for they affirm that the people are drifting away from 

 church and chapel into the broadest infidelity. The manufacturers. 



