DIGITISED MANUSCRIPTS

Gat) of knowledge, and thus qualify them to aid in forming public opinion. The consequence of the facilitation of intercourse has been to bring together the ignorant and the educated, and to enable the masses to judge of the inestimable blessings which education brings in its train. Every educated man knows that rank and wealth are no longer essential to his advancement, or to his attaining that position to which his in- dustry and his ability entitle him. Twelve repre- sentatives of labour now sit in the House of Com- mons, and men have raised themselves from the lowest station to the most coveted positions in the land. Lord O’Hagan, the late Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was the son of a labourer, and he went through all grades of the legal profession until he reached the woolsack. Moreover, men are con- scious that if they are guilty of intolerance, of cruelty, of intemperance, or ill-manners, it obtains general publicity, and however much they may be admired for such conduct by the ignorant few, they will be justly condemned by tke large portion of the community. Puitanturopy.—There have been great philan- thropists at all times, but the difficulties with which they had to contend—geographical, physical, and intellectual—often rendered their efforts almost fruit- saetpess