or set of men who break the public peace.” The strike and its sufferings will not be in vain if by making us think it strengthens our hold on those heirlooms. SAMUEL A. BARNETT. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, ABERDEEN TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES The following changes have been made to the text as printed: 1. Footnotes have been placed close to their respective markers and renumbered sequentially within each chapter. 2. Page 5: 'When, however we come to the third constituent' ... A comma has been inserted after 'however'. [There is extra space in the line as printed, where a comma would be expected.] 3. Page 32 (footnote): 'Fom' changed to 'From'. 4. Page 50: Changed ’ to ” after 'respect'. [Quote opens with “] 5. Page 54: Changed 'some unmeaning task, work die unfreed,' to '... taskwork, die unfreed'. [The reference is to the poem 'A Summer Night' by Matthew Arnold: 'Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give,' ...] 6. Page 95 (bottom line): 'Henrietta A. Barnett' changed to 'Henrietta O. Barnett'. 7. Page 137: 'labouror' changed to 'labourer'. [The spelling has been checked in a facsimile (not e-text) of the 1834 document being quoted] 8. Page 141: 'satifies' changed to 'satisfies'. 9. Page 156: 'The corresponding mortality ... it between two and three times' changed to 'is between ...'. 10. Page 205: Removed quote mark before 'Mr. Williams said:' 11. Page 212: 'motthering' changed to 'mothering'. 12. Page 230: Footnote index 1 inserted in front of 'From “The Contemporary Review”'. 13. Page 249: 'between £160 and £200 per annum' changed to 'between £160 and £700'. [Figures verified from the work cited: Riches and Poverty, by E. Chiozza Money (1905), p. 42.] 14. Page 271: Inserted comma after 'Why' in 'Why what would the men have to lean against?' 15. Page 328: '5·300' changed to '5,300'. 16. Page 332 (bottom line): 'Samuel H. Barnett' changed to 'Samuel A. Barnett'. The following anomalies in the printed text are noted, but no change has been made: 1. Inconsistent hyphenations, spellings and punctuation have been retained as printed, where not definitely erroneous. [These are discrete essays, written at different times by two hands and reprinted from a range of publications.] 2. In the children’s writings quoted in Chapter 4, all non-standard spelling, punctuation and grammar have been retained as printed. 3. Table of contents: Chapter 33 begins on page 327, not 320 as printed. Chapter 34 begins on page 333, not 327.