Speeches: Literary and Social, Charles Dickens [7 ebook reader TXT] 📗

edwells rather oftener in alleys and by-ways than she does in courtsand palaces, and that it is good, and pleasant, and profitable totrack her out, and follow her. I believe that to lay one's handupon some of those rejected ones whom the world has too longforgotten, and too often misused, and to say to the proudest andmost thoughtless--"These creatures have the same elements andcapacities of goodness as yourselves, they are moulded in the sameform, and made of the same clay; and though ten times worse thanyou, may, in having retained anything of their original natureamidst the trials and distresses of their condition, be really tentimes better;" I believe that to do this is to pursue a worthy andnot useless vocation. Gentlemen, that you think so too, yourfervent greeting sufficiently assures me. That this feeling isalive in the Old World as well as in the New, no man should knowbetter than I--I, who have found such wide and ready sympathy in myown dear land. That in expressing it, we are b