In his scheme, of course the clergy and the gentry were to educate the poor, who were to take down thankfully as much as it was thought proper to give them: and all beyond was 'self-will' and 'private judgment,' the fathers of Dissent and Chartism, Trades'-union strikes, and French Revolutions, et si qua alia.
'And pray, Mr.Smith, may I ask what limit you would put to education ?' 'The capacities of each man,' said Lancelot.

'If man living in civilised society has one right which he can demand it is this, that the State which exists by his labour shall enable him to develop, or, at least, not hinder his developing, his whole faculties to their very utmost, however lofty that may be.

While a man who might be an author remains a spade-drudge, or a journeyman while he has capacities for a master; while any man able to rise in life remains by social circumstances lower than he is willing to place himself, that man has a right to complain of the State's injustice and neglect.' 'Really, I do not see,' said Vieuxbois, 'why people should wish to rise in life.

They had no such self-willed fancy in the good old times.

The whole notion is a product of these modern days--' He would have said more, but he luckily remembered at whose table he was sitting.
'I think, honestly,' said Lancelot, whose blood was up, 'that we gentlemen all run into the same fallacy.