text:  We do not however whilst re-establishing facts in their purity dream the practical impossibility of confounding and disarming the ignorance of men unfortunately so ill educated and unread and with intellect so incapable apparently of appreciating instruction if not wilfully perverse as the Cobdens or of restraining the less coarse but more fluent flippancy and equally unscrupulous assurance of friend Bright from resort to that stock and stale weapon of vulgar minds which is so readily drawn from the armoury of falsehood