It was much if the victims could write their names. From the ...
It was much if the victims could write their names.
From the marriage registers it would appear that in the thirties about one-third of the men and two-thirds of the women could not. Nor was there much evidence of improvement in the past thirty years.
In Manchester, about 1810, the Signers were 52, the Markers 48; by 1838 the proportion had only moved to 55 and 50. Clearly no society could be left to rest on a substratum of ignorance so dense as these figures show, especially after the Reform Bill had divulged the arcanum of party government, that the franchise might be extended.
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Of what use were cheap papers to a population which could not ...
Of what use were cheap papers to a population which could not read them? The passion for an educated people, which united all re
But between White-hall and the people at large there were, except for ...
But between White-hall and the people at large there were, except for the Poor Law Unions, no administrative links or gradations.
Chadwick, who thought of e
It was far too modern for 1843. Parliamentary Government can only operate ...
It was far too modern for 1843. Parliamentary Government can only operate with the equipment and feelings of the current age. The Voluntary Schools were there.
And any attempt