APPENDIX III 



PEASANT PROPRIETORS 



" A peasant proprietary increases the number of 

 those who have something to lose and nothing to gain 

 by revolution, encourages habits of thrift and industry, 

 gives the owner of land, however small the plot, a stake 

 in the country, and a vested interest which guarantees 

 his discharge of the duties of a citizen." (Rowland E. 

 Prothero, M.P., " English Farming, Past and Present.") 



" The small owner is generally, of all improvers, the 

 most intelligent, the most industrious and the most 

 successful " (" Wealth of Nations," Book III, Chap. IV). 



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