Hazlitt's subject was the traditional sports and rural diversions native to the English. In "Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England" (1844: translated as "The Condition of the Working Class in England"), Friedrich Engels wrote sarcastically of Young England (a ginger-group of young aristocrats hostile to the new industrial order) that they hoped to restore "the old 'merry England' with its brilliant features and its romantic feudalism. This object is of course unattainable and ridiculous ..." The phrase "merry England" appears in English in the German text.