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all industrious and well-to-do; immorality is scarcely known; 

 there is but little sickness, and the death-rate and in a manu- 

 facturing town is only eleven in a thousand ! All this has been 

 done by one man a man of moderate ability and fortune, but 

 with a conscience. Sir Titus Salt has built a handsome town, 

 with good sanitary conditions, educational institutions, library, 

 reading room, and many advantages not commonly enjoyed by 

 manufacturing populations ; and he enjoys the gratitude of the 

 inhabitants of Saltaire. What is there to hinder every noble- 

 man, every landed proprietor, every great capitalist in England 

 doing what a man of justice and judgment ought to do for 

 those from whose labour he derives his wealth? These men 

 want what money alone cannot purchase the honour of their 

 fellow-men and their own esteem ; and neither are to be had 

 by a man wearing purple and fine linen, and faring sumptuously 

 -every day, while his fellow-men around him are living miserable 

 lives, or wretchedly ending them by his neglect. I know that 

 day by day more is being done. There are noblemen who visit 

 the poor in their cottages, nurse them when sick, carry them in 

 their arms. They are very good; but there is much more to be 

 done a deeper and more thorough work. What we want of the 

 aristocracy of England is that they place themselves at the head 

 of a social reformation which shall make her people solidly 

 intelligent, thoroughly good, sober, honest, industrious, pros- 

 perous, with a diffused and general prosperity and security, 

 and with all the refinement and culture possible to such a 

 population. If a few were to set the example, others would 

 follow it. When one model parish, model estate, model village 

 is organised, a thousand will follow the good example, and all 

 England will rapidly crystallise into a higher social, and thence 

 a higher political condition. And England is a central nation, 

 whose literature instructs, and whose example will be followed 

 by, the whole English-speaking world. 



