Forty soldiers,I am told,will disperse the largest Spitalfields mob;forty to ten thousand,that is the proportion between drilled and undrilled.Much there is which cannot yet be organised in this world,but somewhat also which can--somewhat also which must.When one thinks,for example,what books are become and becoming for us,what operative Lancashires are become;what a Fourth Estate and innumerable virtualities not yet got to be actualities are become and becoming,one sees organisms enough in the dim huge future,and 'United Services'
quite other than the redcoat one;and much,even in these years,struggling to be born!""An effective 'Teaching Service,'I do consider that there must be;some education secretary,captain-general of teachers,who will actually contrive to get us taught.Then again,why should there not be an 'Emigration Service,'and secretary with adjuncts,with funds,forces,idle navy ships,and ever-increasing apparatus,in fine an effective system of emigration,so that at length before our twenty years of respite ended,every honest willing workman who found England too strait,and the 'organisation of labour'not yet sufficiently advanced,might find likewise a bridge built to carry him into new western lands,there to 'organise'with more elbow room some labour for himself?There to be a real blessing,raising new corn for us,purchasing new webs and hatchets from us;leaving us at least in peace;instead of staying here to be a physical-force Chartist,unblessed and no blessing!Is it not scandalous to consider that a Prime Minister could raise within the year,as I have seen it done,a hundred and twenty millions sterling to shoot the French;and we are stopped short for want of the hundredth part of that to keep the English living?
The bodies of the English living,and the souls of the English living,these two 'Services,'an Education Service and an Emigration Service,these with others,will have actually to be organised.