The evidence which he brought together from all parts of the country, shows that the increase of immorality with the increase of wages was attributed to the low tastes and desires of the people .-- that the obstinate refusal of the men to exert more than two-thirds of their fair powers of work, by which the cost of production is largely enhanced, capital crippled, and the public mulcted, was due to the same cause,--that their readiness to become the prey of unionists and agitators is traceable to their want of the most elementary principles of thought,--that most of the accidents, which are of weekly occurrence, are occasioned by their stupidity and ignorance,--that wherever they have advanced in intelligence, they have become more skilful, more subordinate, and more industrious.

These facts have convinced the more thoughtful and far-sighted masters, that the only sure means of maintaining their ground under increasing foreign competition, and averting a social crisis, is to reform the character of the rising generation of operatives by _education_,] It must, however, be admitted that education is not enough.

The clever man may be a clever rogue; and the cleverer he is, the cleverer rogue he will be.

Education, therefore, must be based upon religion and morality; for education by itself will not eradicate vicious propensities.

Culture of intellect has but little effect upon moral conduct.