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would remove all those evils by enabling land- 

 lords to execute every permanent improvement 

 upon their estates in an efficient manner. All 

 that tenants would have to do would be to 

 test the value of new improvements by ex- 

 periment; and whenever they saw that the 

 reduction of any theory to practice would prove 

 beneficial to them, to apply to the landlord for 

 money or for leave to turn their current rents 

 to this source where such are sufficient, an 

 application which would always be gladly re- 

 sponded to by him. Parties, however, must not 

 proceed faster than experiment will sanction. 

 Neither landlords nor tenants must listen to 

 the advice of theory unless accompanied with 

 practice. Science has not yet made sufficient 

 progress to warrant exclusive reliance upon in- 

 formation from this source. And even when 

 experiment is resorted to science has made so 

 little progress, that the greatest caution will 

 be necessary in giving credence to her deduc- 

 tions. 



From these remarks it will readily be per- 

 ceived that the land-improving scheme which 

 we propose is a scheme to be founded upon 

 successful experiment a scheme where theory 



