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THE DUTIES OF CITIZENSHIP
By B. Bosanquet
I have been considering how most usefully to deal with so
vast a subject as the Duties of Citizenship. And it has
occurred to me that a certain amount of theory may be the
most practically valuable contribution which I in particular
am able to offer to you. It is agreed, I believe, among
authorities on technical education that no reading or
lecturing can be a substitute for workshop training. And
therefore I shall avoid every attempt to instruct you what
in particular you are to do. For that you need workshop
training, and your presence here shows that you know
where to go for it. Nor again would it be useful that I
should attempt to give even general advice as to the
line of life and of work which it is most expedient to
take up. Individual lives must be moulded by individual
judgment.
But perhaps there is some use in trying to throw light on the connection between our several lives and the society in which we find ourselves. It may be possible to exhibit some perfectly simple conceptions which may be capable of serving as clues to the unity of life underlying the confusion of purposes and opinions by which we are surrounded.
- ↑ I. and II. are lectures delivered at the Women’s University Settlement, Nelson Square, Southwark.
