The statements of economical principles given in the text, though I know that most, if not all, of them are accepted by existing authorities on the science, are not supported by references, because I have never read any author on political economy, except Adam Smith, twenty years ago. Whenever I have taken up any modern book upon this subject, I have usually found it encumbered with inquiries into accidental or minor commercial results, for the pursuit of which an ordinary reader could have no leisure, and by the complication of which, it seemed to me, the authors themselves had been not unfrequently prevented from seeing to the root of the business. Finally, if the reader should feel induced to blame me for too sanguine a statement of future possibilities in political practice, let him consider how absurd it would have appeared in the days of Edward I. if the present state of social economy had been then predicted as necessary, or even described as possible. And I believe the advance from the days of Edward I. to our own, great as it is confessedly, consists, not so much in what we have actually accomplished, as in what we are now enabled to conceive. CONTENTS. LECTURE I. PAGE THE DISCOVERY AND APPLICATION OF ART 1 _A Lecture delivered at Manchester, July 10th, 1857._ LECTURE II. THE ACCUMULATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ART 70 _Continuation of the previous Lecture; delivered July 13th, 1857._ ADDENDA. NOTE 1.--"FATHERLY AUTHORITY" 151 " 2.--"RIGHT TO PUBLIC SUPPORT" 159 " 3.--"TRIAL SCHOOLS" 169 " 4.--"PUBLIC FAVOUR" 180 " 5.--"INVENTION OF NEW WANTS" 183 " 6.--"ECONOMY OF LITERATURE" 187 " 7.--"PILOTS OF THE STATE" 189 " 8.--"SILK AND PURPLE" 193 SUPPLEMENTARY ADDITIONAL PAPERS. EDUCATION IN ART 213 ART SCHOOL NOTES 229 SOCIAL POLICY 240 "A JOY FOR EVER." LECTURE I. THE DISCOVERY AND APPLICATION OF ART. _A Lecture delivered at Manchester, July 10, 1857._