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that polic}^ of " tillage by State compulsion," which the Count 

 de Boulainvilliers so admired ; and Young, right enough 

 whenever he steered clear of abstract questions, was never 

 more so than when he advocated a system of bounties which, 

 while they encouraged reclamation, would have left the choice 

 of cultivation to the husbandman of the period. 



