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18. _ of Heroules in hand to abate the power of the aristocracy
and their allies, the snobs of the towns. I have faith in
nothing but slow and heavy toil, and I shall lose all hope if
we cannot see with toleration, and a desire to encoursg®
every effort that aims at curtailing the power and privilege?
of the common enemy.”
Cobden was never so immersed in political projects a8 0
forget how much of the vital work of social improvement
lies entirely away from the field of politics. While he Wa8
corresponding with Mr. Bright about economic and par
liamentary reform, and with George Combe about educations
he did not lose sight of a third canse which seemed to him
a8 it has always done to Mr. Bright also, not any less
important to the national welfare than either of the other
bwo. The letter which follows was written to Mr, Livesey
a zealous advocate for the promotion of Temperance :—
“ London, Oct. 10.~Your letter has given me very great
pleasure. Ithas often been a matter of sincere regret to 1°
that I have not had the pleasure since my return to England
of shaking hands with you. I have taken up my abode permanently
 here, for being obliged to be six months in Londons
and finding if intolerable to be so long separated from my
family, I had no alternative but to make choice of one abodes
or to have two removals of my household every year, which i
both unpleasant and expensive. As I had no business 68
in Manchester, I was tempted by the climate to leave my
esteemed friends and neighbours to settle here, where I
shall never form the sterling friendships that I possessed
in Lancashire, The damp and rigorous climate of South
Lancashire with its clay soil, never agreed with my consti
bution, which requires a more genial temperature and a sandy
dry soil, such as I was used to in my early days in Sussex
My abode is near the Great Western Station, Paddington
the highest part, ea well as tho driest. of the metronolis.