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5000/. The consequence of introducing a similar 

 system of cultivation into Austria would be to li- 

 berate the whole of the funds of the nobles now 

 locked up in the cultivation of their lands. In ad- 

 dition to this there should be complete opening of 

 the ports to all produce at an equal ad valorem 

 duty, which would cause each of those different 

 provinces to put forth the produce peculiar to itself, 

 and without which opening there can be no full 

 spontaneous development of the resources of each. 



Centuries must elapse before Austria could be 

 in difficulties from causes similar to those which 

 now trouble England ; for it is the abundance of 

 coal which is one great source of our facility of 

 manufacture, and this no other European country 

 produces in an equal measure. If the laissez faire 

 maxim has been pushed to a culpable excess in 

 this country, the opposite evil of meddling with 

 everything has been carried in Austria to an equal 

 extreme. The good and the evil of the practices of 

 both countries must be freely admitted before it be 

 possible to recommend the amelioration of either 

 by the adoption of anything from the example of 

 the other. 



The hereditary antipathy of the Frenchman to 

 everything that is called by the name of English ; 

 the religious bigotry which is ever indignant against 

 those who refuse to permit the Bishop of Rome 



