Read the excerpt from "early victorian tea set" by neil macgregor. as it got cheaper, tea also spread rapidly to the working classes. by 1800, as foreigners remarked, it was the new national drink. by 1900 the average tea consumption per person in britain was a staggering 6 lbs (3 kilograms) a year. in 1809 the swede erik gustaf geijer commented: next to water, tea is the englishman's proper element. all classes consume it . . in the morning one may see in many places small tables set up under the open sky, around which coal-carters and workmen empty their cups of delicious beverage. how does geijer's comment support macgregor's point