Excerpt from Questions for a Reformed Parliament

The general purpose of this volume of Essays has already been indicated, in the Preface to "Essays on Reform." It is, to show that some of the questions

in which the action of Parliament has hitherto been least satisfactory, may be more hopefully approached by a Government representing and carrying with it the whole nation.

Since the publication of the former volume, the question of Parliamentary Reform has made considerable progress; and there is now a fair prospect of its being settled within a reasonable time. It may be doubted, however, whether this is not due rather to a sense of political necessity than to a hearty conviction on the part of the present possessors of power that, by a liberal enfranchisement of working men, and a transfer of representation from small boroughs to large and thriving communities, national interests will be promoted.

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