Excerpt from Education, as a Means of Preventing Destitution: With Exemplifications From the Teaching of the Conditions of Well-Being and the Principles and Applications of Economical Science at the Birkbeck Schools, Prefaced by a Letter to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M. P

My Lord,

I am aware that it must be matter of more than ordinary importance, which alone can justify an obscure individual in trespassing upon your time and attention. When I state that the subject upon which I would trouble you is "Education, " I think I may flatter myself, that you will not disdain to spare a few minutes for the consideration of what I would now venture to bring under your notice - especially if I add, what is well known to many in this metropolis and elsewhere, that I am not merely a talker or writer, but an actual worker in the great Educational harvest-field.

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