text:  Next it was said that education would lay the axe to the root of crime; that ignorance was the parent of vice; and by diffusing the school-master you would extinguish the greater part of the wickedness which afflicted society; that the providing of cheap innocent and elevating amusements for the leisure hours of the working-classes would prove the best antidote to their degrading propensities; and that then and then only would crime really be arrested when the lamp of knowledge burned in every mechanic's workshop in every peasant's cottage