To them it seemed proper and reasonable that men, and women too, should work for what they ate.

The theory that only a few chosen persons, not by any means estimable either as to their characters or their abilities, should eat what others were starved for, would not have appealed to them.

They were a small and unimportant community, but their ideas of justice and principles of conduct were very firmly established.

They lived on the lines laid down by their forefathers, and held that a simple faith in God, coupled with honest hard labour, was sufficient to make life well worth living.

And, on the whole they were made of that robust human material of which in the days gone by there was enough to compose and consolidate the greatness of Britain.