text:  Let Lord Ashley obtain from a reluctant legislature his ten-hours' bill and Dr Chalmers have a clergyman established for every 700 inhabitants; let church extension be pushed till there is a chapel in every village and education till there is a school in every street; let the separate system be universal in prisons and every criminal be entirely secluded from vicious contamination; still the great fountains of evil will remain unclosed; still 300 000 widows and orphans will exist in a few counties of England amidst a newly collected and strange population steeped in misery themselves and of necessity breeding up their children in habits of destitution and depravity; still the poor will be deprived from the suddenness of their collection and the density of their numbers of any effective control either from private character or the opinion of neighbourhood; still individual passion will be inflamed and individual responsibility lost amidst multitudes; still strikes will spread their compulsory idleness amidst tens of thousands and periodically array the whole working classes under the banners of sedition despotism and murder; still precocious female labour will at once tempt parents into idleness in middle life and disqualify children in youth for household or domestic duties