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THE GOLDEN BOOK OF
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called, and this general discipline of the mind has, on the whole, been found sufficient until recent times; but during the last thirty years the competition of other nations, even in manufactures which once were exclusively carried on in this kingdom, has been very severe. . . . . . Train the intelligence of industrial communities, so that, with the increasing competition of the world, England may retain her proud pre-eminence as a manufacturing nation.
(1881)
And on another occasion,
It is of the greatest importance to do everything within our power to advance the knowledge as well as the practical skill of the productive classes of the Empire.
(1887)
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