text:  And it is in the midst of such gigantic causes of evil--of causes arising from the extraordinary and unparalleled influx of mankind into the manufacturing districts during the last forty years which can bear a comparison to nothing but the collection of the host with which Napoleon invaded Russia or Timour and Genghis Khan desolated Asia--that we are gravely told that it is to be arrested by education and moral training; by infant schools and shortened hours of labour; by multiplication of ministers and solitary imprisonment! All these are very good things; each in its way is calculated to do a certain amount of good; and their united action upon the whole will doubtless in process of time produce some impression upon the aspect of society even in the densely peopled manufacturing districts