so THINGS A11E_, AND SO THEY MUST BE. 13 



^vliere a pack of fox-liounds has been long kept 

 on a princely scale by the best of sportsmen, ^ye 

 will suppose the estates of the Duke of Cleveland 

 to be subdivided till every rood of ground, for the 

 time being, had its man. Could any one be 

 absurd enough to suppose it would continue thus ? 

 It would not over one harvest ; some, from idleness, 

 bad management, or bad habits, would find they 

 could not hold their own ; a more prudent or better 

 managing neighbour takes it, and adds it to his 

 own, and probably the late owner of the added 

 rood assists the new possessor in its culture : here 

 in the first, not only generation, but season, 

 one becomes doubly possessed, and the other a 

 labourer ; as possessions and wealth accumulate, 

 so do the means of acquiring increased wealth. 

 The careful man adds rood by rood to his pro- 

 perty, till he possesses ten roods ; nine of his neigh- 

 bours become labourers ; and of those who still 

 retain their rood, he, as relates to them, becomes a 

 large landed proprietor, they only a step above 

 the labourer : he is to them what the wealthy 

 farmer, holding a thousand acres, and riding hunt- 

 ing, is to the man tilling a hundred and holding his 

 own plough : and thus, as now, in the course of 

 time would Ptaby Castle again own one master. 



If every individual living had the same talent, 

 the same industry, habits, and disposition, if we 

 gave each similar possessions and means, each 



