“The labourer's lad … might learn his catechism; that, and things similar to it, was the right, proper, and suitable knowledge for such as he; he would be the more likely to stay contentedly in his place to the end of his working days.”

—  Joseph Arch

Source: The Story of his Life Told by Himself (1898), p. 25

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