And the mere naked enumeration of them is sufficient to show that such an Assembly will have ample matter of economic development upon which to keep its teeth polished without devouring either priests or Protestants.
There are other urgent questions upon which unanimity exists even at present, for example Poor Law Reform.

I have outlined in an earlier chapter the honourable record of Ireland in this regard.

We were agreed in 1836 that the workhouse should never have come; we are now agreed that it must go.

Whether in Antrim or in Clare, the same vicious system has produced the same vicious results.

Uniform experience has issued in unanimous agreement as to the lines upon which reform ought to proceed.
At the same time there are differences as to detail, and the task of fusing together various views and hammering out of them a workable Bill will be an ideal task for a representative assembly.