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brought to bear upon the actions and general 

 conduct of the peasants, and the effect thereof 

 was to raise the tone alike of individuals and of 

 the village life in general. 



To this list of moral results should be added 

 the fact that religious differences also are 

 becoming less acute in Hungarian villages, as 

 the outcome of the new economic movement. 

 Protestants and Roman Catholics meet together 

 on a common footing for the purpose of securing 

 mutual benefits, and their discovery of the fact 

 that, though they differ on some points, they 

 can work together in complete harmony on 

 others, is having a wholesome influence on their 

 daily relations. 



Conjointly with the action of those who 

 sought to promote the revival of agriculture in 

 Hungary by the direct means of that co-operative 

 credit which constituted the real backbone of the 

 whole movement, must be placed the activity of 

 the National Agricultural Society, the county 

 agricultural societies, and the various co-operative 

 agricultural combinations connected therewith. 

 Established in 1830 on the foundations of an 

 older body, known as the " Breeders 1 Associa- 

 tion," the National Agricultural Society operated 

 for many years on the usual lines of agricultural 

 societies of the old-fashioned type, that is to say, 



