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or less of it has taken bodily shape in many parts 

 of the country, and there are towns of no great 

 size or wealth in the manufacturing districts 

 (Keighley, for example) in which almost the whole 

 of it has, for some time, been carried out, so far as 

 the means at the disposal of the energetic and 

 public-spirited men who have taken the matter 

 in hand permitted. The thing can be done ; 

 I have endeavoured to show good grounds for the 

 belief that it must be done, and that speedily, 

 if we wish to hold our own in the war of indus 

 try. I doubt not that it will be done, whenever 

 its absolute necessity becomes as apparent to all 

 those who are absorbed in the actual business of 

 industrial life as it is to some of the lookers on. 



[Perhaps it is necessary for me to add that 

 technical education is not here proposed as a 

 panacea for social diseases, but simply as a 

 medicament which will help the patient to pass 

 through an imminent crisis. 



An ophthalmic surgeon may recommend an 

 operation for cataract in a man who is going blind, 

 without being supposed to undertake that it will 

 cure him of gout. And I may pursue the 

 metaphor so far as to remark, that the surgeon 

 is justified in pointing out that a diet of pork-chops 

 and burgundy will probably kill his patient, 

 though he may be quite unable to suggest a mode 



