Henry Mayhew
Henry Mayhew
Henry Mayhewwas an English social researcher, journalist, playwright and advocate of reform. He was one of the co-founders of the satirical and humorous magazine Punch in 1841, and was the magazine's joint-editor, with Mark Lemon, in its early days. He is also known for his work as a social researcher, publishing an extensive series of newspaper articles in the Morning Chronicle that was later compiled into the book series London Labour and the London Poor, a groundbreaking and influential survey...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth25 November 1812
The attainment of the truth, then, will be my primary aim; but by the truth. I wish it to be understood, I mean something more than the bare facts.
We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.
In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.
I heard on all hands that the costers never steal from one another, and never wink at any one stealing from a neighbouring stall.
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved
Advice to persons about to marry - don't
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles