As it subjects us to laws, it must teach us to read them; and while it thus teaches, it must teach also the ennobling truths which display the power and the wisdom of the great Lawgiver, thus diffusing knowledge while it is extending education; and thus making men contented, and happy, and humble, while it makes them quiet and obedient subjects." A beginning has already been made with public school education.

Much still remains to be done to establish the system throughout the empire.
At present we are unable to judge of the effects of what has been done.
But if general education accomplish as much for England as it has already accomplished for Germany, the character of this country will be immensely improved during the next twenty years.

Education has almost banished drunkenness from Germany; and had England no drunkenness, no thriftlessness, no reckless multiplication, our social miseries would be comparatively trivial.
We must therefore believe that as intelligence extends amongst the working class, and as a better moral tone pervades them, there will be a rapid improvement in their sober, thrifty and provident habits; for these form the firmest and surest foundations for social advancement.
There is a growing desire, on the part of the more advanced minds in society, to see the working men take up their right position.

They who do society's work,--who produce, under the direction of the most intelligent of their number, the wealth of the nation,--are entitled to a much higher place than they have yet assumed.

We believe in this "good time coming," for working men and women,--when an atmosphere of intelligence shall pervade them--when they will prove themselves as enlightened, polite, and independent as the other classes of society; and, as the first and surest step towards this consummation, we counsel them to PROVIDE--to provide for the future as well as for the present--to provide, in times of youth and plenty, against the times of adversity, misfortune, and old age.
"If any one intends to improve his condition," said the late William Felkin, Mayor of Nottingham, himself originally a working man, "he must earn all he can, spend as little as he can, and make what he does spend, bring him and his family all the real enjoyment he can.