text: " After dwelling on the supply of information which the present age enjoys and which is quite without parallel in any former period and pointing out the inconsistencies among us of which nevertheless every day affords perpetual examples the writer asks-- "Do these evils proceed from some moral perversity in the people? Is there some natural barrier in England against the effects of capital industry science and religion; or is it not that ignorance of the laws that regulate and harmonize social existence and of those that govern the human mind has hitherto been extensively prevalent and is still resisting the remedies of riper experience? "But the poor and ignorant cannot educate themselves; it must be the upper classes who give them the means of improvement