Excerpt from Fors Clavigera, Vol. 8: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain

The series of letters which closed last year were always written, as from the first they were intended to be, on any matter which chanced to interest me, and in any humour which chance threw me into. By the adoption of the title 'Fors,' I meant (among other meanings) to indicate this desultory and accidental character of the work; and to imply, besides, my feeling, that, since I wrote wholly in the interests of others, it might justifiably be hoped that the chance to which I thus submitted myself would direct me better than any choice or method of my own.

So far as regards the subjects of this second series of letters, I shall retain my unfettered method, in reliance on the direction of better wisdom than mine.

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