Before revision: On the one hand, the Philosophic Whigs, spearheaded by Brougham, offered a new vision of a society progressing into the future: Thackeray would write of "the three cant terms of the Rdical spouters...'the March of Intellect', 'the intelligence of the working classes', and 'the schoolmaster abroad'".Quoted in M. Dorothy George, Hogarth to Cruikshank (London 1967) p. 177 Brougham's foundation of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and of University College, London, seemed to epitomise the new progress of the age.
After revision: On the one hand, the Philosophic Whigs, spearheaded by Brougham, offered a new vision of a society progressing into the future: Thackeray would write of "the three cant terms of the Radical spouters...'the March of Intellect', 'the intelligence of the working classes', and 'the schoolmaster abroad'".Quoted in M. Dorothy George, Hogarth to Cruikshank (London 1967) p. 177 Brougham's foundation of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and of University College, London, seemed to epitomise the new progress of the age.