Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Social problems
Stupor and Despair, unspeakably the least orthodox? We will
exchange it even with Paganism, with Fetishism; and, on the
whole, must exchange it with something.
An effective 'Teaching Service' I do consider that there must be;
some Education Secretary, Captain-General of Teachers, who will
actually contrive to get us _taught._ Then again, why should
there not be an 'Emigration Service,' and Secretary, with
adjuncts, with funds, forces, idle Navy-ships, and ever-
increasing apparatus; in fine an _effective system_ of
Emigration; so that, at length, before our twenty years of
respite ended, every honest willing Workman who found England too
strait, and the 'Organisation of Labour' not yet sufficiently
advanced, might find likewise a bridge built to carry him into
new Western Lands, there to 'organise' with more elbow-room some
labour for himself? There to be a real blessing, raising new
corn for us, purchasing new webs and hatchets from us; leaving
us at least in peace;--instead of staying here to be a Physical-
Force Chartist, unblessed and no blessing! Is it not scandalous
to consider that a Prime Minister could raise within the year, as
I have seen it done, a Hundred and Twenty Millions Sterling to
shoot the French; and we are stopt short for want of the
hundredth part of that to keep the English living? The bodies of
the English living; and the souls of the English living:--these
two 'Services,' an Education Service and an Emigration Service,
these with others will actually have to be organised!
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