Excerpt from Life of William Ellis, Founder of the Birkbeck Schools: With Some Account of His Writings, and of His Labours for the Improvement and Extension of Education
Some time after the death of William Ellis I undertook the duty of writing an account of his life from the conviction that a record of his character, work, and educational method would be of public advantage. The chief feature of his character - that which controlled his life and acts - was an overmastering, world-wide, practical benevolence. His strong and vivid realization of the mass of misery and destitution which exist in the world, and his personal feeling that it was his duty, as well as that of every other enlightened human being, to try and alleviate it, led him to study its cause; and he found by conclusive evidence that that cause existed mainly, if not entirely, in the character, habits, and conduct of the destitute creatures themselves or their parents. But the effect on his mind was the precise opposite of that produced on Hamlet's when he said,
"The time is out of joint; O cursed spite,
"That ever I was born to set it right!"
Ellis felt compelled by his sense of the amount of misery existing in the world not merely to exert himself to set it right, but even to devote his whole life to that mission.
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