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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
Separation between “Class” and “Class” is the great curse of British society; for which we are all more or less, in our respective spheres, responsible. It is more complete in Manufacturing than in Agricultural districts. … But I am afraid we all of us keep too much aloof from those beneath us; and this encourages them to look upon us with suspicion and dislike..... The great want of English society is the mingling of class with class; the want of sympathy.
TALFOURD (Charge to the Grand Jury at Stafford [at the moment of his death], 13 March 1854.)
In educational matters, it is the best economy in the end to make “Saving” not the principal but a secondary consideration. -A man, whose mind is always bent upon “Saving,” will be sure to do things imperfectly and insufficiently; to leave errors and arrears; and to provoke a certain re-action towards lavish expenditure.
THE TIMES (23rd March 1857).
GENERAL VIEW OP THE RECEPTION OP THE ACT IN ENGLISH TOWNS.
BOOK III Chapter XVIII. Working of the Puplic Libraries Acts.
The first Library established under the “Public Libraries Act,” of 1850, was that of Manchester. The preliminary subscription towards the expenses of its foundation had been set on foot, whilst the Bill was still pending in the House of Commons, by Sir John Potter, now one of the Representatives of the City, of which he was then Mayor.
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