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this chapter, and for this century, I propose to confine my illustration, as I have done in the preceding, to one special subject, but a subject also quite characteristic of the times we are engaged with. We have seen how successfully we carried out the resanitation, or sanitary reconstruction, of London—an exemplary movement which was promptly followed by that of most others of our cities and towns, and which enormously advanced the general physical comfort and social well-being. Following that great sanitary step, or rather, in great measure, marching concurrently with it, we also successfully effected a great moral resanitation in a certain section of society, that, namely, which was connected with crime and mendicancy. But a much more advanced, and, indeed, entirely different ideal of resanitation has been silently at work all this time; while we have delayed mentioning it until now, because the full fruition of