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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    the monarch, and the instruments for spreading the influence of his tyranny. To refute the second great sophism, of the superior advantage of large farms; it is needless to inquire whether a nation of small proprietors, or one of hired labourers and large farmers, is the happiest or the most powerful. It is sufficient to know that the scale of culture is, in all countries, rigorously regulated by the quantity of capital; and that the size of farms is determined by a necessary law, in which the rights of primogeniture enter for nothing. In France, the cultivation varies according to the wealth of the province. In the south, where the population is poor, the farms are small; while in the north, which is comparatively wealthy, farming is conducted on a larger scale.* In Ireland, where the estates are * In La Bauce, where the farms are usually large, the small proprietors let their land to the large, who possess the means of cultivating on a scale greater than that of their
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