92 A TRACT OF MISCELLANIES. 



ways, steamboats, omnibuses, the electric telegraph 

 and the penny postage, there is not the same neces- 

 sity as formerly for a condensation of the population 

 into towns for commercial purposes. As one of these 

 entailed properties would yield to an average family 

 not more than the first necessaries of life, the mem- 

 bers of a family not engaged in agriculture would 

 require to betake themselves to other trades and 

 professions, in order to procure for themselves the 

 second necessaries. These trades and professions 

 would thus revert to what was their original design, 

 namely, to procure for man all that man requires 

 beyond that of mere aliment. With the growing 

 intelligence of the people a question would arise, 

 whether or not it would be more advantageous for 

 those with entailed properties to cultivate their own 

 respective allotments themselves ; or to incorporate 

 a given number of those entailed properties into one 

 farm, to be cultivated for the benefit of the families 

 to whom they belonged. By this arrangement the 

 members of a family would be free to betake them- 

 selves to other trades and professions. 



152. What could man do if he would? Could 

 he morally exist without doing violence to his natural 

 tendencies ? Could he exterminate, if he would, all 



