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The very rigour of his environmental and mechanical materialism meant that he must either despair or proclaim a secular chiliasm.

The problem was to indoctrinate the youth in ‘habits of attention, celerity, and order’.

It is sometimes less an argument than an affirmation, an imprecation, a leap of feeling.

The touchstone can be seen during the field labourer’s ‘revolt’ in 1830, when The Times (Cobbett’s ‘BLOODY OLD TIMES’) led the demand for salutary examples to be made of the rioters

when the Manchester movement was beginning to break up in a welter of personal disputes and warring factions