Note 12 — Chapter XIII · THE MORAL EFFECT OF MANUAL TRAINING.

In support of the truth of these propositions it is sufficient merely to allude to the late disclosures by the Pall Mall Gazette of the prevalence of revolting crimes in London, England. It is also pertinent to remark the attitude of hostility maintained by the higher classes (so called) of the English people towards the editor of the journal in which the disclosures were made, as significant of an alarming degeneration of the moral sense of the British public.