In his Ecce, Convertimur ad Gentes , Arnold writes: “For twenty years I have felt convinced that for the progress of our civilization here in England three things were above all necessary: a reduction of those immense inequalities of condition and property among us of which our land system is the cause, a genuine municipal system, and public schools for the middle class.”
— from The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald