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But some may say, "Why give
working people special time to think ?
What good use can they make of itS"
Let us see what they Aaso done. Take
general literature. Look at Daniel
Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe,
one Of the greatest authors of prose
fiction that ever lived he began life
as hosier, and was almost wholly
self taught. William Bobbet, the
great master Of racy Saxon English,
was in early life farmers boy, and
was afterward a common soldier
Isaac Walton, the pleasing biographer
and complete angler" was linen
draper
Then in Science. Thomas Simpson,
the distinguished mathematician, wro't
for the greater part of his life, as y
weaver. Capt. Cook, one of the most
scientific of English sailors, and a
very pleasing writer, was wholly self
taught. His father was poor peas
ant learned to read when turned of
10, in order that he might be able to
peruse his sons voyages, Arkwright,
subsequently Sir Richard, the invent
or Of the cotton-spinning machine,
was poor man, and commenced life
as barber. James Brindley, the
author Of canal navigation in Eng
land, the first who tunneled great
hills, and brought ships across naviga-
BILE rivers on bridges, was millwright.
Hershell, subsequently Sir William,
originally a musician in Hanoverian
Regiment, became skillful optician
and a great astronomer. To him
Campbell refers in the well-known
line.
"Gave to the Tyre of heaven another string"
Then for arts. Chantrey was
milk and butter boy, and his first
modelings were in softer material
than marble. Sir Thomas Lawrence
was the son of an inn-keeper, and
wholly self-taught. John Opie was
found by DR.. Wallace working in "a
saw-pit. William Hogarth, the great
est master of character that ever de-
veloped his ideas by means of the pen
Gil, served his apprenticeship to an en-
craving silversmith, and commenced
his professional career by engraving
coats-of-arms and shop bills.
Then in poetry. Clifford, the first
editor of the Quarterly" began life
as a poor sailor boy, and afterwards
served an apprenticeship to shoe
maker. Bloomfield pardon me for
calling him the English Burns-wrote
his best poem, "The Farmers Boy"
while he, too, worked in a garret as
shoemaker. a.
ben Johnson" says Fuller, in his
"English Worthless" worked for some
time as bricklayer and mason. He
helped in building the new structure
ofLincoln's Inn, when, having trowel
in his hand, he had book in his
pocket"
Shakespeare, your own Will Shak-
speare, was q poor mans son his
father could tnot write his own name,
and his cross or mark still exists in
the record of Stratford- on Avon TO at
test the fact. The poets own educa-
ton appears to have been very limit
ed, and tradition describes him as hav
ing lived for a time by very humble
employments. Then turn we to the
ology, the highest range of all. The
two Millers, DIR. Isaac, Dean of Car
isle, and his brother Joseph, author
of the well known History of tho
Church, began Life as weavers. DIR.
Prideaux, author Of the ''Connection,"
and Bishop of Worchester, got his ed
ucation by entering Oxford as kitchen
boy. John Bunyan, the greatest mas
ter of allegory, and author of the sec
ond book in all the world, was a self
taught tinker. These some are of
England's best workuen, who have
thought, and thought to some purpose
These are some of your hosiers, and
linen drapors, and millwrights, and
masons, and sawyers, and shoemaker,
and weayers, and BARRIERS ndtinkers.
Is England proud of them9 Well
she may be. Does she want moro Of
them I? She needs them all. Then
let England give her working people
time to think; for the mems sake, for
the minister's sake, for England's
sake--for Gods sake.--Lon9oa Lecture