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Dutton, Uploaded by Robarts Library, University of Toronto. Web 24 July George Moore, Merchant and Philanthropist. Uploaded by the University of California Libraries. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, Google Books Free E-book. Of Moore he wrote, in philosophical vein, We can finish nothing in this life; but we may make a beginning, and bequeath a noble example.

Victorian Web. In he moved to the post of Secretary of the South-Eastern Railway. In he became President of the National Provident Institution, but left in after a serious stroke. He died in At some point in the s, Samuel Smiles seems to have started to write prolifically. I did not much admire the London crowd. They seemed loafers and idlers, not working men. In the working people suffered much.

Towards the close of the year, at least 10, persons were out of employment in the burgh of Leeds. Though the people complained, they did not riot. It was different elsewhere. There were riots at Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, and other places. At Newport, in Wales, a Chartist insurrection took place, which ended in the capture of John Frost and a number of rioters.

At Bradford, men openly practised with pikes and firearms. Sixteen of them were apprehended by the police, and were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Feargus O'Connor himself was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for inciting to insurrection and plunder in the Northern Star.

Joseph Hume: From the time he took his seat in Parliament, down to the year , when he offered himself to the Leeds constituency, Joseph Hume distinguished himself by his indefatigable industry. There is scarcely a page of the parliamentary register which does not contain some record of his sayings and doings. In the finances, the revenue, the excise, the public accounts, the army and navy, the representation of the people, the removal of religious disabilities, he was always at work.

He was the most regular attender, the most consistent voter, the most laborious investigator, the most active and useful member, perhaps, who ever sat in Parliament. Co-operative Movement: Leeds, like other large towns, had a Socialist Hall. It was afterwards taken by the Mechanics Institute. But when I first knew it, the place was used for Socialist meetings and lectures.

I went there occasionally to see what was done and said. From Smiles suffered from various illnesses and began to slow down. He died in and was buried in Brompton Cemetery. In a classic paragraph from Chapter 1 of Self-Help — reproduced below he also made the case for informal education and autodiadaxy:. Daily experience shows that it is energetic individualism which produces the most powerful effects upon the life and action of others, and really constitutes the best practical education.

Schools, academies, and colleges, give but the merest beginnings of culture in comparison with it. Far more influential is the life-education daily given in our homes, in the streets, behind counters, in workshops, at the loom and the plough, in counting-houses and manufactories, and in the busy haunts of men. However, as Peter W. The art of achievement illustrated by accounts of the lives of great men. London: John Murray.

Jarvis, Adrian Samuel Smiles and the Construction of Victorian Values. Thrupp: Sutton Publishing.