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Quotation from Chartism by Thomas Carlyle

“Universal Education is the first great thing we mean ; general Emigration is the second”

Thomas Carlyle

Chartism, Chapter X (James Fraser, London, 1840 (IA chartism00carluoft))

Carlyle's answer to the practical man who demands to know what can be done: two concrete measures to set against the claim that reform is impossible.

Citation: "Universal Education is the first great thing we mean ; general Emigration is the second" — Thomas Carlyle, Chartism, Chapter X (James Fraser, London, 1840 (IA chartism00carluoft)). (id chartism-q9)

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