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as the citizen-proprietorship of his own country. In well- 

 organized society, as we understand it, there is no necessity for 

 three classes ; for the citizen who owns his land here, consti- 

 tuting himself this trinity of society which the Premier 

 admires so much, being literally the "three in one," supplies 

 all those forces to the State, the love of liberty, the love of the 

 land, the love of progress, which are supplied Great Britain by 

 the proprietors, the farmers and the peasants acting in separate 

 capacities. Instead, however, of realizing the possibility of 

 such proprietorship as this, and finding in it a remedy for the 

 evils he had depicted, Lord Harrington takes an early occasion 

 to state that he has no desire to alter the land laws, "for the 

 purpose of encouraging the growth of a peasant proprietor- 

 ship." " There were many persons," he said, " on all sides of 

 politics, who thought that a considerable number of small 

 proprietors would be a great advantage ; but with the imperfect 

 consideration which he had been able to give to the subject, he 

 had never laid down the doctrine that the existing tenure of 

 land in this country (England) should be altered, or that any- 

 thing should be done to encourage any other tenure." And 

 so the discussion ended, and large proprietorship and tenant - 

 farming still remain. 



The result, however, of the inquiry and the almost univer- 

 sally recognized fact that the agricultural interests of England 

 are suffering, and that both proprietor and tenant fail to receive 

 their reward, one for his capital, and the other for his labor, 

 have brought about the appointment of a commission who are 

 now inquiring into the sources of agricultural wealth here ; 

 the method by which agricultural products can be raised and 

 exported profitably to the English market, and, I trust, into 

 the tenure of land, which constitutes our citizen-proprietorship. 

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