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cat, and the gallows. We need only that intelligence shall give 

 our forces the right direction. 



" The liberty of the subject," or some vague notion that 

 Magna Charta gives every man a right to do as he likes, bars 

 the way of reformation. The only real liberty any man has 

 under any charter, great or little, is THE RIGHT TO DO RIGHT. 

 There is no right to do wrong. No man can have any right to 

 injure himself, for he belongs to others. No man has a right 

 to injure another, for each belongs to all and all to each. We 

 are all members one of another. Every man is his brother's 

 keeper. No one has the right to taint the common life of man 

 with fraud or sin : with any physical or moral evil. He who 

 defiles the air that men breathe, or the thoughts they think, 

 equally commits a nuisance. Men have the right to do right ; 

 and it is right to free themselves and society, and the world 

 itself, from all the evils that darken and degrade humanity. 



The evil of ignorance, which lies at the root of so many 

 others, can be removed, and the work of universal education is 

 begun. It is seen to be a matter of national safety. The evil 

 of poverty is not a necessary evil. The yearly production of 

 the necessaries of life in England is abundant for the needs of 

 all her people. Her own soil, well cultivated, would feed a 

 much larger population. Her manufactures, were their profits 

 fairly distributed, would provide comforts and luxuries for mill- 

 ions. With intelligence, and moral culture corresponding to 

 intellectual development, would come a taste for refined enjoy- 

 ments, and men would no longer drink to intoxication, or 

 stupify themselves with narcotics ; and two hundred millions of 

 money spent on intoxication would be saved for higher and 

 nobler uses. The causes of disease and premature mortality 

 would be removed, and nine-tenths of the miseries that afflict 

 humanity. Abolish ignorance, poverty, and drunkenness ; raise 

 all human life to higher levels of dignity and virtue ; give tc 

 the lower millions the comforts, respectabilities, and sanctities 



