Folk who sets up to doctor th' world wi' their truth, mun suit different for different minds; and be a bit tender i' th' way of giving it too, or the poor sick fools may spit it out i' their faces. Now Hamper first gi'es me a box on my ear, and then he throws his big bolus at me, and says he reckons it'll do me no good, I'm such a fool, but there it is."
"I wish some of the kindest and wisest of the masters would meet some of you men, and have a good talk on these things; it would, surely, be the best way of getting over your difficulties, which, I do believe, arise from your ignorance--excuse me, Mr. Higgins--on subjects which it is for the mutual interests of both masters and men should be well understood by both. I wonder"--(half to his daughter), "if Mr. Thornton might not be induced to do such thing?"
"Remember, papa," said she in a very low voice, "what he said one day,--about governments, you know." She was unwilling to make any clearer allusion to the conversation they had held on the mode of governing work-people--by giving men intelligence enough to rule themselves, or by a wise despotism on the part of the master--for she saw that Higgins had caught Mr. Thornton's name, if not the whole of the speech: indeed, he began to speak of him.

And folk who sets up to doctor th' world wi' their truth must be a bit tender in th' way of giving it too. Now Hamper gives me a box on my ear, and then he throws his words at me like a pill, and says he reckons it'll do me no good, I'm such a fool, but there it is.'
'I wish some of the kindest and wisest of the masters would meet some of you men, and have a good talk on these things. It would, surely, be the best way of getting over your difficulties, which I believe arise from your ignorance - excuse me, Mr. Higgins - on subjects which both masters and men need to understand. I wonder' (half to his daughter), 'if Mr. Thornton might not be induced to do such a thing?'
'Remember, papa,' said she in a very low voice, 'what he said once - about governments, you know.'
Higgins had caught Mr. Thornton's name.
