476 Safety Rejected. [August, 
tax imposed on the long-stapled cotton, though it was requi- 
site for the Indian cotton-spinners to import for the purpose 
of mixing with the short-stapled native, in order that they 
might compete successfully with the English cotton goods, 
as very inconsistent with free-trade principles. 
My objeCt in bringing prominently forward statistics, both 
as regards English and American prosperity, is with the view 
of impressing upon our commercial, manufacturing, and 
trading classes, that they, especially, ought no longer to be 
satisfied with the present system of public education in this 
country. Our manufacturers especially have too long been 
content only to know somewhat of the commercial part of 
their business, and little or nothing of their craft ; but even 
as regards buying I have shown in my work on Scientific 
and Technical Education, by remarkable examples, — and I 
could add to them, — that they are frequently unable to buy 
with advantage from this non-acquaintance with their 
industry ; and the cry that is arising for apprenticeship 
schools arises from this very faCt — our manufacturers being 
no longer practically acquainted with their industries, but 
being simply capitalists and employers of labour ; whilst 
the manufacturers on the Continent, owing to the education 
they have received in their Real Schools and in their Tech- 
nical Colleges, are entering on their duties with a full know- 
ledge of them, and are, by the excellent education they have 
received, exercising a marked influence on the development 
of their manufactures. 
VII. SAFETY REJECTED.) 
§ GAIN, as in a long succession of seasons, we have 
been entertained with high hopes, almost amounting 
to prophecies, of something at least approximating 
to a summer. Surely, it has been generally felt and said, 
after so many ungenial years— -either moist and cold beyond 
the average, or at least affording us dry calm weather only 
when least needed — we might, on the mere probability of 
he matter, hope for weather not utterly ruinous to the 
farmer and the gardener. The cycle of hard winters which 
