Sunday Under Three Heads

by Charles Dickens

My Lord, You were among the first, some years ago, to expatiate on the vicious addiction of the lower classes of society to Sunday excursions; and were thus instrumental in calling forth occasional demonstrations of those extreme opinions on the subject, which are very generally received with derision, if not with contempt. Your elevated station, my Lord, affords you countless opportunities of increasing the comforts and pleasures of the humbler classes of society-not by the expenditure of the smallest portion of your princely income, but by merely sanctioning with the influence of your example, their harmless pastimes, and innocent recreations.