Excerpt from The North British Review, Vol. 19 of 24: November, 1855, and February, 1856 We should anticipate little advantage of a practical kind as likely to accrue from association such as we are new supposing to be formed, unless, at the same time, effectual means were taken to impart to the class next above the operative class, an education which should be at once, and in a genuine sense, scientific, while, in the most decisive sense, it is also practical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.