joice in their strength. In all the new-fangled comprehensive plans
which I see, this is all left out: and the consequence is, that your
great Mechanics' Institutes end in intellectual priggism, and your
Christian Young Men's Societies in religious Pharisaism.

Well, well, we must bide our time. Life isn't all beer and
skittles,--but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort,
must form a good part of every Englishman's education. If I could only
drive this into the heads of you rising Parliamentary Lords, and young
swells who "have your ways made for you," as the saying is,--you, who
frequent palaver houses and West-end clubs, waiting always ready to
strap yourselves on to the back of poor dear old John, as soon as the
present used-up lot (your fathers and uncles), who sit there on the
great Parliamentary-majorities' pack-saddle, and make belief they're
guiding him with their red-tape bridle, tumble, or have to be lifted
off!

I don't think much of you yet--I wish I could; though you do go talking
and lecturing up and down the country to crowded audiences, and are busy
with all sorts of philanthropic intellectualism, and circulating
libraries and museums, and Heaven only knows what besides; and try to
make us think, through newspaper reports, that you are, even as we, of
the working classes. But, bless your hearts, we "ain't so green," though
lots of us of all sorts toady you enough certainly, and try to make you
think so.

I'll tell you what to do now: instead of all this trumpeting and fuss,
which is only the old Parliamentary-majority dodge over again--just you
go each of you (you've plenty of time for it, if you'll only give up
t'other line,) and quietly make three or four friends, real friends,
among us. You'll find a little trouble in getting at the right sort,
because such birds don't come lightly to your lure--but found they may
be. Take, say, two out of the professions, lawyer, parson, doctor--which
you will; one out of trade, and three or four out of the working
classes--tailors, engineers, carpenters, engravers,--there's plenty of
choice. Let them be men of your own ages, mind, and ask them to your
homes; introduce them to your wives and sisters, and get introduced to
theirs: give them good dinners, and talk to them about what is really at
the bottom of your heart, and box, and run, and row with them, when you
have a chance. Do all this honestly as man to man, and by the time you
come to ride