s of Servile Employments. The
possible Practice and Exhibition of sincere
Humility by Religious Persons.

XIX. BROKEN REEDS 73
The General Pressure of Excessive and Improper
Work, in English Life.

XX. ROSE-GARDENS 78
Of Improvidence in Marriage in the Middle Classes;
and of the advisable Restrictions of it.

XXI. GENTILLESSE 83
Of the Dignity of the Four Fine Arts; and of the
Proper System of Retail Trade.

XXII. THE MASTER 88
Of the Normal Position and Duties of the Upper
Classes. General Statement of the Land Question.

XXIII. LANDMARKS 93
Of the Just Tenure of Lands; and the Proper
Functions of high Public Officers.

XXIV. THE ROD AND HONEYCOMB 101
The Office of the Soldier.

XXV. HYSSOP 108
Of inevitable Distinction of Rank, and necessary
Submission to Authority. The Meaning of
Pure-Heartedness. Conclusion.

APPENDICES.

APPENDIX PAGE
I. Expenditure on Science and Art 119
II. Legislation of Frederick the Great 120
III. Effect of Modern Entertainments on the Mind of Youth 124
IV. Drunkenness as the Cause of Crime 124
V. Abuse of Food 126
VI. Regulations of Trade 128
VII. Letter to the Editor of the _Pall Mall Gazette_ 130

PREFACE.

The following Letters were written to Mr. Thomas Dixon, a working
cork-cutter of Sunderland, during the agitation for Reform in the
spring of the present year. They contain, in the plainest terms I
could use, the substance of what I then desired to say to our English
workmen, which was briefly this:--"The reform you desire may give you
more influence in Parliament; but your influence there will of course
be useless to you,--perhaps worse than useless, until you have wisely
made up your minds what you wish Parliament to do for you;