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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    cheap there; and all classes of labourers are on an average prosperity far beyond that of the English peasant. The division of pro- perties, therefore, has not hitherto operated to create a beggarly population, or to check the accumulation of asufficient national capital.” Nothing can be more gratifying to the eye of the philosopher and the philanthropist, than than it otherwise would be. In the south, the influence of the revolution has been less felt. The people, there, are poor, ignorant, and superstitious, as compared with those of the northern provinces. Fiscal restrictions upon internal com- merce also operate universally to depress agriculture. Errors and prejudices on the subject of free trade, tend to the same unhappy consequences. Notwithstanding the march of intellect, Europeans are yet only in a state of semi-bar- barism. * Sir EF. Burdett, whose aristocratic leanings on this point are well known, having asked General La Fayette, what they would do in France, when the land shall be di- vided into properties of a few square yards; he replied by asking, how England would manage, when it has but four or five proprietors.
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