Excerpt from Extension of University Teaching in England and America: A Study in Practical Pedagogics Kingsley and others began the Christian socialist movement, of which a leading aim was the establishment of social settle ments headquarters for the dissemination of good influence in the community, centers to which the people could look for per sonal assistance and encouragement. In 1854. Maurice founded a college for workingmen in London, and in 1867 Edward Deni son, a young Oxford man imbued with the scientific spirit, took up his residence among the poor of the east end that he might study their condition at first hand. Arnold Toynbee followed him a few years later and in the short period before his early death in 1883, succeeded in inaugurating a philanthropic and educational work which is admirably carried on at Toynbee Hall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.