text:  In public life we see chicanery in the law apathy in the Church corruption in Parliament brutality on the seat of justice; trade burdened with a great variety of capricious restrictions; the punishment of death multiplied with the most shocking indifference; the state of prisons so dreadful that imprisonment--which might be and in those days often was the lot of the most innocent of mankind--became in itself a tremendous punishment; the press virtually shackled; education every where wanted and no where to be found