Suggestions for its Improvement. 
II 
from landlords. It may perhaps be further said, that the spirit of 
improvement which is abroad, and the emulaticm and energy 
which accompany it, will be sufficient for effecting all that is 
necessary, without the landlord's intervention or extraneous helps 
of any kind. Experience does not, however, bear out this last 
proposition, or there would be less in the way of improvement 
to be effected at the present day. And with respect to the first 
objection it may be answered, that as the value of property is in- 
creased by all improvements, they ought to originate with the 
owner as well as to be supported by him. This will accordingly 
be found to have been the case ; most of the improvements, cer- 
tainly all the material improvements of late years, having ori- 
ginated with and been carried forward by individual landlords, 
such as the late Duke of Bedford, Mr. Coke of Norfolk, and 
others who still remain among us, and whose great merits in this 
respect are now fully appreciated. But for the exertions of these 
eminent persons in their capacity of landlords, the improvements 
which they originated would not have taken place, at least not at 
so early a period, neither would they have been carried out so 
effectively or been so extensively adopted. On the score of 
example, then, as well as of self-interest and a sense of public 
duty, our landlords have every inducement to attend to the im- 
provement of their property, with which, if it be judiciously con- 
ducted, their tenants and labourers and all connected with them 
will abundantly sympathise, 
2nd. — To extend the Benefits of Education. 
That ample means for the education of the working classes 
should be pronded is now universally admitted, although there 
may be some difference of opinion as to the nature of the education, 
and the extent to which it ought to be carried. Whatever may 
have been the caise formerly, no one in the present dav ventures to 
assert that the working classes should be reared in ignorance, or 
that knowledge as well as wealth should be the portion of the 
higher classes alone ; and accordingly there is now a stronger dis- 
position to promote the education of the lower orders than has 
probably ever existed before, at least since the time of Edward VI. 
Still, however, opinions are by no means unanimous as to what the 
nature of the education ought to be — some contending for a wider, 
some for a narrower range of instruction. 
There can be no doubt that mankind, in the aggregate, will be 
that which they are taught and trained to become ; and it follows 
that they should be so taught, so trained, as to fit them in all 
respects for the duties which they will have to perform, and for 
the station of life in which they are, or in which they may eventu- 
ally be placed. This ought to be the great object of education — 
