and Europe," by Joseph Kay, of Cambridge University.

"As I have already said, the _moral, intellectual and physical
condition of the peasants and operatives_ of Prussia, Saxony
and other parts of Germany, of Holland, and of the Protestant
cantons of Switzerland, and the social condition of the
peasants in the greater part of France, _is very much higher
and happier, and very much more satisfactory, than that of
the peasants and operatives of England_; the condition of the
_poor_ in the North German, Swiss and Dutch _towns_, is as
remarkable a contrast to that of the poor of the _English
towns_ as can well be imagined; and that the condition of the
_poorer classes_ of Germany, Switzerland, Holland and France
is _rapidly improving_. The great _superiority_ of the
_preparation_ for life which a _poor man_ receives in those
countries I have mentioned, to that which a peasant or
operative receives _in England_, and the difference of the
social position of a poor man in those countries to that of
a peasant or operative in England, seem sufficient to explain
the difference which exists between the moral and social
condition of the poor of our own country and of the other
countries I have named. In Germany, Holland, and Switzerland,
a child begins its life in the society of parents who have
been educated and brought up for years in the company of
learned and gentlemanly professors, and in the society and
under the direction of a father who has been exercised in
military arts, and who has acquired the bearing, the clean and
orderly habits, and the taste for respectable attire, which
characterize the soldier. The children of these countries
spend the first six years of their lives in homes which