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Mill, during the first fifty years of the present century. It was 

 lucky for the landlords and farmers that the force of Cobbett's 

 attack was expended before that of Mill made itself felt. Had 

 these two been contemporaries ; had Cobbett's ocular famili- 

 arity with what he discussed been joined to the depth of 

 reasoning powers developed in the inglenook by Mill, and had 

 a concerted attack emanated from the pens of both, the Land 

 Laws of this period would have assumed a still more revolu- 

 tionary character than what they actually bear. 



