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spun in the brain of a Utopian philosopher. More 

 or less of it has taken bodily shape in many parts 

 of the country, and there are towns of no great 

 size or wealth in the manufacturing districts 

 (Keighley, for example) in which almost the whole 

 of it has, for some time, been carried out, so far as 

 the means at the disposal of the energetic and 

 public-spirited men who have taken the matter in 

 hand permitted. The thing can be done; I have 

 endeavoured to show good grounds for the belief 

 that it must be done, and that speedily, if we wish 

 to hold our own in the war of industry. I doubt 

 not that it will be done, whenever its absolute 

 necessity becomes as apparent to all those who 

 are absorbed in the actual business of industrial 

 life as it is to some of the lookers on. 



Perhaps it is necessary for me to add that 

 technical education is not here proposed as a pana- 

 cea for social diseases, but simply as a medica- 

 ment which will help the patient to pass through 

 an imminent crisis. 



An ophthalmic surgeon may recommend an 

 operation for cataract in a man who is going blind, 

 without being supposed to undertake that it will 

 cure him of gout. And I may pursue the meta- 

 phor so far as to remark, that the surgeon is jus- 

 tified in pointing out that a diet of pork-chops and 

 burgundy will probably kill his patient, though 

 he may be quite able to suggest a mode of living 



