CHAPTER IV.
MEANS OF SAVING.
Earnings of operatives--Colliers and iron-workers--Earnings of colliers--The revellers--Lord Elcho and the colliers--High wages and heavy losses--High wages and drink--Sensual indulgence--Indifference to well-being--Hugh Miller's experience--Mr.Roebuck's advice--Survival of slavery--Extinction of slavery--Power unexercised--Earnings and character--Ignorance is power--Results of ignorance--Increase of knowledge--Education not enough--Words of Sir Arthur Helps--Divine uses of knowledge--Public school education--Words of William Felkin.

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