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sub-tewania of the former country have any affinity ^ t ^ Ae small but independent proprietors of the latter * We a ***** ther prepared to say that , eveh should the aetnal w **] tfcdf *!* country necessarily be diminished by such a distributio */* ve yet hold oar proposition to be correct ; aince the well-b © i ! ttfe £ bf
a people depends in a much greater degree on a just diVision of property than on the absolute amount of property amongst them . We regret that we have been unable to gather from Mr Laing ' s work , whether the Norwegian law provides for an equal division among ail the children , or whether the daughters have smaller portions than the sons ; according to the ancient law , we believe their portion was only half that of the
sons . . The state of education in Norway is evidently defective , and the mental cultivation of the people by no means keeps pace with their physical comforts ; but since the establishment of their constitution in 1814 , a great impulse has been given to the national mind , and the free press is working its usual wonders .
Having shortly detailed the condition of the different classes existing in Norway , as it may be understood from Mr Laing * s admirably clear description , we may recur to Mr Mai thus and his theory of the population , with the fears of the " most thinking and best informed persons / ' in the event of its continued
increase . The increase has continued , and of late years at a considerably advanced ratio . * What is the result ? A people in the enjoyment of a greater degree of comfort , and having a higher standard of comfort than in any other country with which we are acquainted ; the average length of life singularly high ; the progress of those tastes and habits which mark aprogre * sipn of prosperity—such as the consumption of foreign luxuries ,
and the importation of foreign articles ; an increased detnaad for mental amusement , and a newly awakened and continually augmenting search after knowledge * The Norwegians are fond of frequenting the theatre , where they have dramatic representations of some kind or other , which Mr Laing does not admire ; but , from the gratuitous remark he ventures as to the Drama in general , it is quite
ipanifest that , be the Norwegian plays as bad us they may , they are full as good as he deserves to witness . They have several weekly journals , and monthly magazines on subjects of literary apd antiquarian interest . , . , " Twenty years ago , " says Mr Laing , " there was not a newspaper published in . Norway , excepting for advertisements of sales , or of the
• •< Norway , in the year 1825 , had a population of 967 , 959 persons . By the census of 11986 the numtMrs are 1 , 096 , 291 , being an increase in these tea Tears of 18 ^ 3 **"—JUmo , p . 30 & .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 661, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/9/
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