IV 



A LIBERAL EDUCATION; AND WHERE 

 TO FIND IT 



[1868.] 



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 

 recognised. 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, pro- 

 claimed this opinion, still exists in a semi-fossil 



