Since I have taken a part in public affairs, the fact of the vast weight of the poverty and ignorance that exists at the bottom of the social scale has been a burden on my mind, and is so now. I have always hoped that the policy which I have advocated, and has been accepted in principle, will tend gradually but greatly to relieve the pauperism and the suffering which we still see among the working classes of society.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Since I have taken a part in public affairs, the fact of the vast weight of the poverty and ignorance that exists at the bottom of the social scale has been a burden on my mind, and is so now. I have always hoped that the policy which I have advocated, and has been accepted in principle, will tend gradually but greatly to relieve the pauperism and the suffering which we still see among the working classes of society." in the context of "Speech in Edinburgh (5 November 1868), quoted in Public Addresses by John Bright, M.P., ed. J. E. Thorold Rogers (1879), p. 136" to mean that wisdom is timeless.