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ranee, uncouth manners, brutal conduct, and uncomfortable 

 habits of great masses of our population. They are difficulties, 

 no doubt, but not objections. They are just what every kind 

 of reform and progress has to contend with and overcome. It 

 is the grand work in which the best social organisation should 

 engage to instruct the ignorant, soften and refine the rude 

 and barbarous, train men and women in good manners and 

 morals, industry and honesty, sobriety and virtue. If only 

 nice and cultivated people are to come together to enjoy the 

 greatest amount of happiness in each other's society, leaving 

 the poor and ignorant, the rude and vicious to their fate, 

 we need not trouble ourselves about their failure or success. 

 "Society" may drive round and round in Hyde Park, crowd 

 balls and operas, applaud noble and heroic pigeon-shooters, 

 and amuse itself as it will to the end of the chapter. But the 

 work of the true philanthropist is to improve the condition of 

 humanity, and the worse that condition the more need of ener- 

 getic, self-sacrificing, and heroic efforts for its redemption. 



CHAPTER VII. 



GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. 



Social Tendencies Functions of Government Circulation of Intelligence 

 Transport of Goods and Passengers Insurance Distribution of the 

 Necessaries of Life Order and Regulation of Social Interests Diabolic 

 Elements of Political Economy The True Principle of Wages Rent. 



THE tendencies of society in the most advanced nations to 

 social organisation are very marked, but the modes, so far, are 

 narrow and imperfect. We have unions for improving the 

 condition of different trades by mutual support in strikes for 



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