Volume 2

France in 1829-30 / By Lady Morgan.

  • Sydney, Lady Morgan
Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: France in 1829-30 / By Lady Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    great industrial fortunes raise the apparent condition of the people to the level of the landed aristocrat ; and as this species of pro- perty is to a certain degree gavelled, it re- turns a large mass of wealth back- upon the middle and inferior ranks. But the mischief is still at work, an active agent of misery; and it shows itself in all its deformity, in the debt, the taxes, and the poor rates, and the dete- riorated condition of the labouring classes. ' is in Ireland that the unequal distribution of wealth produces its evil consequences in all their intensity. There, no middle class what- ever exists, beyond the walls of the metropolis, and two or three great towns. ‘The whole face of the country shows only magnificent castles, or the-most wretched hovels. There, no one is to be seen but the gentleman or the beggar. The head is in monstrous disproportion to the body of the nation; while commerce stagnates, capital diminishes, and pauperism, like the plague, is beginning to spread its infection
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