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but I can read, and see, and hear. The honours paid to rank 

 are evident, and must have some reasonable foundation. Cen- 

 turies of training have given hereditary qualities which fit men 

 for leadership. Truth, honour, heroism, must become habitual. 

 Noblesse oblige. If a man of noble birth is false, unjust, nig- 

 gardly, avaricious, tyrannical, he is considered a disgrace to his 

 order, which proves that his order, as a rule, is distinguished for 

 noble qualities. An ancient family and an honourable name 

 are elements of great power; add the immense wealth of many 

 members of the aristocracy, titled and untitled, and we have 

 just such leaders of a social reformation as we require. They 

 have only to see the work to be done, and the way to do it. 

 Each one upon his own domain could organise a model society. 

 Titles could remain undisturbed, and settlements be readily 

 adapted to new conditions. If it were a man-of-war to com- 

 mand, every man would fall into his place and do his duty ; if 

 it were a military corps, there would be no trouble about order 

 and discipline. Well, it is something better than either, more 

 varied, more beautiful, more beneficent. It is a hundred fami- 

 lies to make comfortable and happy; neat cottages to build, 

 nice gardens to lay out and cultivate, children to educate, 

 and young men and women to employ according to their 

 abilities, drunkards to reform, idlers to set to work, the produce 

 of the land to multiply, the social virtues to cultivate, and to 

 take the lead in all the recreations and amusements suited to 

 such a population. 



Something like this has been done by two or three great 

 manufacturers; but only to a small extent, and in an imperfect 

 manner compared with what the same power, with more intel- 

 ligence, might have accomplished. A manufacturer in the 

 north of Ireland owns a village of some five thousand inhabi- 

 tants, in which there is not one public-house, not one drunkard, 

 nor pawnbroker, nor lawyer, and very little to employ doctor 

 or policeman. The children are all at school; the people are 



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