tinel walks with a firmer tread on the banks of
the Ebro, having heard that the Duke has arrived at head quarters. So,
throughout. Every where you find individual energy the sustaining power.
See, in public offices, how it is the two or three efficient men who
carry on the business. It is when some individuals subscribe largely in
time, thought, and energy, to any benevolent association that it is most
like to prosper--for then it most resembles one powerful devoted man.
The adding up of many men's indolence will not do. You think, perhaps,
listless man of rank or wealth, that your order sustains you. Short time
would it do so, but for the worthy individuals who belong to it, and who,
at the full length of the lever, are able to sustain a weight which would
throw the worthless, weightless men into air in a minute.

In the above cases it has been one man wielding much power; but in the
efforts that are wanted to arrest the evils which we have been
considering, the humblest amongst us has a large sphere of action. A
provident labouring man, for example, is a blessing to his family and to
his neighbours; and is thus doing what he best can, to relieve even
national distress.

It is a total mistake to bring, as it were, all the misery and misfortune
together, and say, now find me a remedy large as the evil, to meet it.
Resolve the evil into its original component parts. Imagine that there
had been no such thing as the squandering, drinking, absentee Irish
landlords we read of in the last generation--do you suppose that we
should have as many inhabitants in St. Giles's, and the Liverpool
cellars, to look after now? So, with the English landlords and
manufacturers of that time, see what a subtraction from the general mass
of difficult material there would have been, if those men had done their
duty. But you will say we are still talking of bodies. Imagine, then,
that during the last generation there had been the energetic efforts of
individuals in these bodies, that there are now, directed to the welfare
of the people under them. It would, no doubt, have been a great easement
of the present difficulty. Any body who does his duty to his dependents
keeps a certain number out of the vortex; and his example is nearly sure
to be followed, if he acts in an inoffensive, modest fashion. Dr. Arnott
has shown what great things may be done in the way of ventilation by
individual employers. See what benefit would arise if on