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Excerpt from The Education of Character: With Hints on Moral Training Opinions formed, and methods the most contra dictory resorted to, until by the unanimous conviction, as it were, of the whole national mind, we have come to the conclusion that the best way of curing our social evils is to educate the people, rather than to punish them. Education, then, may be said to be the great panacea to which the English people, as a nation, are at present looking for the supply of their greatest national want the want of better habits, conduct, and character, amongst the lowest class of the community. 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.