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acquire eight ; and it is not often that he increases his family beyond the ratio at whiub his property has increased . " — p . 242 . " We must remember , that every thing in a country is affected by the presiding spirit of a country ;—the individual received a magnetic force from the impulse that is affecting the community . In a demoaracy of property , the poor proprietor has an energy which the great proprietor wants .
** Among any people this would he the case , but particularly among the French ; for among the French , the division of property has given to an old and powerful passion a new and profitable rent . ** Through the dark streets of Paris rattled the emblazoned coach ; and along the broad road to Versailles , behold ! the splendidly liveried , and the gaily caparisoned equipages of the embroidered and
brocaded court ! * * * How was the vanity of the great proprietor displayed ? in the wanton and extravagant expenditure of His property ! How is the vanity of the small landed proprietor displayed ? in the daily and difficult accumulation of his property ! The law of equal succession may not have created a new sentiment , but it has engaged , 1 repeat , an ancient one in a new direction . The small proprietor , in defiance of many rules which condemn him to increasing poverty , struggles on to increasing wealth ; his land , which should be badly cultivated , is well cultivated , because it is cultivated with passion . * *
He rises at four o ' clock to cultivate his own strip of ground , when he would not rise till six to cultivate the ground of a master . All his energies are developed in a bad system of agriculture , and tl us it
becomes a good one . " I do not mean to say , that France is so well cultivated as England ; it is not even so well cultivated as it might he ; still it is far better cultivated than any mere agricultural theory would induce us to suppose . "—vol . i . p . 2 ( 30 .
Mr . Bulwer deprecates any comparison between France and Ireland . " ' Poor Iielund ! if any body wants to show that this or that is per * nicious to a state , awa y he speeds to you for an example . i { ' See what Catholicism produces , ' says the Protestant ;—* look at Ireland ! il See what an Established Church produces , ' says the Dissenter ;— . * look at—Ireland ! *
" See what a centralized legislation produces / says the Repealer ;—" look at Ireland ! " " ' See what the want of a provision against Mendicity produces , ' says the poor-law-system-mun ;— ' look at Ireland ! ' * See what the division of land produces / ' says Mr . Maculloch ;—1 look at Ireland ! '
" Unhappy monopolist of misfortune , —too true is it—my poor Sister Country , that we may always turn to you fora calamity ! " But alii *! if we wish for admonition , let us look for it , not in any part of your condition , but the whole . The slightest scratch becomes a gangrene ,, when the blood of all the body is corrupt ; and it is ridiculous to talk of the effects of one mischief in u state of society Which is travailed by every mischief under the sun , * *
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Bulwtr ' s France . \ 6 j
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/39/
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