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PROFESSOR HUXLEY could scarcely have anticipated the ready response Manchester has given to the challenge he threw down at the close of his most able address at the Town Hall on the 29th ult. In speaking of one of the great problems of the day, that of meeting ever-increasing competition and yet maintaining the proper social condition of the workers, he said:— “I have ventured to put this before you in a bare and almost cynical fashion because it will justify the strong appeal which I make to all concerned in this work of promoting industrial education to have a care at the same time that the conditions of industrial life remain those in which the physical energies of the population may be maintained at a proper level, in which their moral state may be cared for, in which there may be some days of hope and pleasure in their lives, and in which the sole prospect of a life of labour may not be an old age of penury.... I therefore confidently appeal to you to let those impulses have full sway, and not to rest until you have done something better and greater than has yet been done in this country in the direction in which we are now going.”
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R., H. Technical Education in Manchester . Nature 37, 121 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037121a0
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