PREFACE Xlll 



had been far more favourable to the " Darkest 

 England " scheme than it is ; if it had really 

 assured the contributors that the funds raised 

 were fully secured against malversation ; the 

 objections, on social and political grounds, to Mr. 

 Booth's despotic organization, with its thousands 

 of docile satellites pledged to blind obedience, 

 set forth in the letters, would be in no degree 

 weakened. The " sixpennyworth of good " would 

 still be outweighed by the " shilling'sworth of 

 harm " ; if indeed the relative worth, or unworth, 

 of the latter should not be rated in pounds rather 

 than in shillings. 



What would one not give for the opinion of the 

 financial members of the Committee about the 

 famous Bank ; and that of the legal experts about 

 the proposed " tribunes of the people " ? 



HoDESLEA, Eastbourne, 

 July 1894. 



