English Social Movements PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... VII MORAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS Bearings Of The Social Movements Upon Specific Moral Causes.--Liquor Problem.--Leading TemPerance Organizations And Their Work.--CoffeeHouses.--Prison System.--The Howard AssociaTion. -- Crime, Gambling, Prostitution. -- ChildSaving Institutions. -- Dr. Barnardo's Homes. -- Elementary Education.-- Increase Of Secondary Education.-- Kegent Street Polytechnic.-- PeoPle's Palace.--Evening Schools.--.development Of Public Education. -- Relations Existing BeTween Education And The Social Movements.-- How The Social Movements Are Making For A Nobler National Life. Op the intimate relation between social movements and the tendencies of a people in the direction of morality and intelligence, there can of course be no question. It is not yet fully known how largely intemperance and crime are the effects of poverty; but there is an increasing belief that they are at least as much its effects as they are its causes. No small part of the vast mass of pauperism, which is a recruiting ground for every form of immorality, is involuntary pauperism, and under right economic conditions, would pass away. A good share of the remainder is an inheritance from previous generations of enforced or encouraged idleness. As to the evils which flourish in the upper ranges of society, it cannot be denied that they are to a large extent the fault of a system which sends to many persons such a harmful surplus of means and leisure. In this point of view, the present tendencies in England in the way of supplying a healthful occupation of body and mind to all, under just conditions, ought to be considered as working strongly toward a higher standard of life. The more direct efforts to dissipate ignorance and crime would be of little...