ewise been published.

It is, however, in connexion with _Public Education_, that the pen
of Lord Brougham has been more extensively employed. His zealous
co-operation with Dr. Birkbeck, and other patriotic men of talent, in
the establishment of Mechanics' Institutions in the year 1824, must
be gratefully remembered by thousands who have enjoyed their benefits;
and, for the advantage of the London Mechanics' Institution, were
republished from the _Edinburgh Review_, his excellent "_Practical
Observations upon the Education of the People_, addressed to the
Working Classes and their Employers."--The twentieth edition of
this pamphlet is now before us, and from its conclusion, to show
the practical utility of the author's suggestions, we quote the
following:--

"I rejoice to think that it is not necessary to close these
observations by combating objections to the diffusion of science
among the working classes, arising from considerations of a political
nature. Happily the time is past and gone when bigots could persuade
mankind that the lights of philosophy were to be extinguished
as dangerous to religion; and when tyrants could proscribe
the instructors of the people as enemies to their power. It is
preposterous to imagine that the enlargement of our acquaintance with
the laws which regulate the universe, can dispose to unbelief. It
may be a cure for superstition--for intolerance it will be the most
certain cure; but a pure and true religion has nothing to fear
from the greatest expansion which the understanding can receive by
the study either of matter or of mind. The more widely science is
diffused, the better will the Author of all things be known, and the
less will the people be 'tossed to and fro by the sleight of men, and
cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.' To tyrants,
indeed, and bad rulers, the progress of knowledge among the mass of
mankind is a just object of terror: it is fatal to them and their
designs; they know this by unerring instinct, and unceasingly they
dread the light. But they will find it more easy to curse than to
extinguish. It is spreading in spite of them, even in those countries
where arbitrary power deems itself most secure; and in England,
any attempt to check its progress would only bring about the sudden
destruction of him who should be insane enough to make it.

"To the Upper Classes of society, then, I would say, that the question
no longer is whether or not the p