I am sick of the _dilettante_ middle class, and mean to try
what I can do with these hard-handed fellows who live among
facts.

And in May, after referring to his Preliminary Course and the
earnestness and attention of his audience, he adds that he has begun
his similar course to working men exclusively--a series of six, given
in turn by each Professor:--

The theatre holds 600, and is crammed full. I believe in the
fustian, and can talk better to it than to any amount of gauze
and Saxony; and to a fustian audience (but to that only) I
would willingly give some when I come to Tenby [Dr. Dyster's
home].

Moreover, he took a practical interest in the corresponding movement
set afoot by F.D. Maurice, and gave occasional addresses at the
Working Men's College between 1857 and 1877, the last of which was
that delightful discourse on science as "trained and organized common
sense" which bears the alluring title of "The Method of Zadig."




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These lectures to working men, no less than his profound interest and