| Show MORAL maral SOUNDNESS OF THE 1 LONDON population the london nation is remarkably distinguished for their strong moral sense aud and their acute quick intelligence in these no people in the most educated virtuous or simple counties or districts at home or abroad can be compared to the londoners Lon doners it stands to reason that this should be their ebar character acter they are aro a people living in the midst of temptation and anti opportune therefore necessarily in the perpetual exercise eser oser cise daily and hourly of E elf eif restraint and moral principle living in the midst of the tho keenest competition ia in every evary trade trado ind and branch of industry and ind therefore naturally in the perpetual exercise of ingenuity and mental power in every work and calling the needy starving men in thi this S population exert every day in walking through the streets of london more practical virtue more self restraint and active virtuous principle i ing temptation to di dishonest t or immoral means meang of relieving his pressing want adi ani and h he struggles against and overcomes mes more moreon of the vicious propensities of our nature than the poor or rich or middle class men in a country population or small town population has occasion to exercise in the course of ofa a whole ji lifetime life ilfe fe time man must live among men and not in a state of isolation among to 0 live in the highest moral condition of maan raan A the london population maybe may be fan far enough from thia highest moral condition but they are individually and practically ti cally caily educated by the circumstances i in which they live into high moral habits of honesty and self res look at the exposure of property in london and at tho the small amount of depredation in proportion to the vast amount of articles exposed to depredation in every street lane or vr shop 1 and nd consider the total inadequacy of op any 1 sa police force however numerous and in all london the police force does not exceed six thousand persons or of any vigilance on the part of the owners themselves however strict to guard baid this property if it were not guarded by the general habitual thorough borough honesty of the population itself look at the temptations to ine inc briar and the small proportion of the plo pio totally abandoned to habitual drun kness 1 virtue is ls at not nob the child of the tho desert or of the schoolroom school room but of the denious dense assemblages semb lages of mankind in which its are called into action and into practical exerts exertion 1 on every hour Te urchin on the pavement turning ov over oven pr head bead and heels heen for a chance halfpenny and resisting in all his hunger the tho temptation of snatching the apple orthe or ohp ca cake eake ike iko from the old woman womans s stall orah or ahe pastry cooks window is morally no uneducated being ills plis his sense penso of of right his self restraint his moral edu cation are areas as trally and highly cultivated aminthe aa inthe son of the bishop p who 1 Is deci declaiming almin aimin t at aft exeter hall about this hoori blyss ignorance and vic vice 6 and und ginnever don gon son bon never knew in his position ahalt is to resist pressing temptation secret opportunity aud and the tela urgent cali calf of hunger practical moral education a religious regard for what belongs to others and doi dol doing g as you yon would bilone binone be done by 4 the tho neighbourly neigh bourly sympathy with anh and help of real distress and the generous glow at what is manly bold and right in common life and the indignation at what is wrong or base are in more full development among the la bodding class in london than among tha thaw thoc 4 yie ne class elsewhere either at home or alad they put more of the fair pla pia ling in their doings dolne tho the ex gon fop I 1 to this character the vice inglut ty blackguardism brutality j of a c small number and n hese not born and bred in the lowest I 1 ow st ranks butia butla but in much higher positions from which they have sunk be smeared with vice immorality and dishonesty which caused their fall cannot be justly taken as a measure of the moral condition of the lower or laboring classes in london the genuine cockneys cock are a good natured hearty heirty set of men their heir mobs are full of sport and rough play and the fero ferocious clotis spirit of mischief wickedness and bloodshed ed rarely predominates considering their great temptations and opportunities and the ehe inadequacy arrangements or military or police force that the government posses to oppose them if a majority were inclined to active deeds of mischief the london population may claim the highest place among the town populations of or europe for a spirit of self restraint on vicious propensities pens densities itie itle and for a practical moral education in the right and reasonable ier |
