Epigraph: 'With education and knowledge (the result of education) tyranny, oppression, and wrong must disappear from the earth. An enlightened people can never remain an oppressed people.'--Nottingham Review, Jan 3, 1840.
Three sonnets Oppression, War and Knowledge published together. At foot of third sonnet: 'Kent-street North, July 27, 1840'
Written as: E. J. H.
Author's note: December 5th, 1848.