If the first condition of citizenship is to realize the state, to know what it is, the second is equally essential, to remember that it rests upon character. The foundation of a sound polity is character, and by character, as Greek and Roman saw, will a state in the long run be judged, by character as exhibiting itself not only in the acts of this man and that, but in national transactions of all sorts. And for this character we have all to answer. Immediately, in our own acts; indirectly, through our choice of men to rule us, and through the education we gave to the sons and daughters of the nation, we are forming the character of the English people day by day.