Thomas Hill Green was an active reformer and reform writer on education, temperance, politics, religion, and philosophy. He worked to revise educational curricula and to increase educational opportunities for poor students from large towns, and he strove to achieve these objectives through his work with the Schools Commission (1864-1868) and at Balliol College, Oxford University, and the city of Oxford. "The Grading of Secondary Schools" and two lectures"The Elementary School System of England" and "The Work To Be Done by the New Oxford High School for Boys"--constitute his principal reform writings on education, and these are all among the pieces in the "Miscellanies" collection published in volume three of his Works of Thomas Hill Green (1885).

His reform work in support of temperance was prompted by personal motives, for one member of his family proved to be an alcoholic, and Green made many addresses on behalf of...