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Increasing" much , faster than the population of the rest of the countryand the question isthereforebecoming every day
now ; is the health of the , nation to be , sustained in the midst of graver the , new _dangers which millions of its people are encountering ?
This question doubtless does not admit of a perfectly satisfactory answer . Yet it is _encoxir aging to observe how on extraordinary
occasions vigilance in science has been rewarded . " Lord John pursued this subject to considerable length , and we
wish that our space allowed of more extracts . But we must only mention the fifth department , Social Economy , in which he
recommended special attention to the subject of emigration , and to that of the conditions of industrial success .
On Tuesday morning , Lord Brougham delivered , to a large and mixed audience , an elaborate address on Popular Literature , which
will remain as a wonderful intellectual momiment of the eighty first ye singular ar of the degree statesman the largest whom views his colleagu of political e describes and social as uniting science - "in with a
the most laborious practical attention to all its details . . While he can survey the whole field of knowledge with the quick and
pervading glance of a inaster , he can work at the task before him with the patient industry of an apprentice . I wish that we may be able
to imitate this spirit , if not attain to this ability . " Lord Brougham ' s address , which maybe considered as el resume of the
history from the of tim popular e when literature the speaker during himself the laid last the _& ve foundation and thirt of y cheap years cir , — -
culation and of the Useful Knowledge Society , hy a tract of which the - twenty when Cassel third Vs edition Illustra lay ted before Family _JFaper _* as he meets spoke a sale until of three present hundred day ,
thousand copies , —is so organic in its development as to be far less nected reprinted easy arranged to with extract . in It lending a is than separate a master libraries other form -p speeches iece , book and of social read clubs and b history papers y and every other , less and lad machinery deserves y systematicall who is to con for be y -
the efficient circulation of literature , . It , is also a chapter ready made to the hand of whoever would describe the growth of England
during the first half of the nineteenth century . A few passages we the would popular fain choose proverb to that enrich " a our little pages knowle ; d here ge is is a dangerous one refuting thing the 1 . "
Speaking of cheap periodicals . " The information conveyed in the manner before described is admitted to be of a limited and imperfect
kind ; the subjects treated or referred to cannot be fully handled ; the instructions given must of necessity be partial or introductory
only . Many readers will go no farther , and therefore by them a scanty knowledge is acquired . Nowbestowing this is
very . , described by the objectors as encouraging superficial acquirements , and the old argumentnot very correctly put forward in a great
, poet ' s verse , is repeated in prose , not much more incorrect , though
less harmonious . But when it is said or sung that " a little learn-
The Meetings At Liverpool. 149 -
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/5/
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