of the previous Lecture; delivered
July 13th, 1857._

ADDENDA.

NOTE 1.--"FATHERLY AUTHORITY" 151
" 2.--"RIGHT TO PUBLIC SUPPORT" 159
" 3.--"TRIAL SCHOOLS" 169
" 4.--"PUBLIC FAVOUR" 180
" 5.--"INVENTION OF NEW WANTS" 183
" 6.--"ECONOMY OF LITERATURE" 187
" 7.--"PILOTS OF THE STATE" 189
" 8.--"SILK AND PURPLE" 193

SUPPLEMENTARY ADDITIONAL PAPERS.

EDUCATION IN ART 213

ART SCHOOL NOTES 229

SOCIAL POLICY 240

"A JOY FOR EVER."

LECTURE I.

THE DISCOVERY AND APPLICATION OF ART.

_A Lecture delivered at Manchester, July 10, 1857._

1. Among the various characteristics of the age in which we live, as
compared with other ages of this not yet _very_ experienced world, one
of the most notable appears to me to be the just and wholesome contempt
in which we hold poverty. I repeat, the _just_ and _wholesome_ contempt;
though I see that some of my hearers look surprised at the expression. I
assure them, I use it in sincerity; and I should not have ventured to
ask you to listen to me this evening, unless I had entertained a
profound respect for wealth--true wealth, that is to say; for, of
course, we ought to respect neither wealth nor anything else that is
false of its kind: and the distinction between real and false wealth is
one of the points on which I shall have a few words presently to say to
you. But true wealth I hold, as I said, in great honour; and sympathize,
for the most part, with that extraordinary feeling of the present age
which publicly pays this honour to riches.

2. I cannot, however, help noticing how extraordinary it is, and how
this epoch of ours differs from all bygone epochs in having no
philosophical nor religious worshippers of the ragged godship of
poverty. In the classical ages, not only were there people who
voluntarily lived in tubs, and who used gravely to maintain the
superiority of tub-life to town-life, but the Greeks and Latins seem to
have looked on these eccentric, and I do not scruple to say, absurd
people, with as much respect as we do upon large capitalists and landed
proprietors;