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tban if it were annexed to an extensive domain. The 

 children of the proprietor of a small farm will collect 

 manure for the fields, or clear them from noxious 

 weeds : the father of the family will till the soil with 

 aire, and at the most favorable seasons ; he will not 

 leave a corner of his ground unproductive. Under this 

 kind of management four or five acres of well-cultivated 

 land is sufficient for the maintenance of a family ; whilst 

 fifty, in a farm, the labors of which are carried on upon 

 a large scale, requiring the assistance of animals, will 

 scarcely support five or six. 



If we consider the division of property in its moral 

 relations, we shall find its advantages greatly increased. 

 The laborer without property has no country ; he remains 

 fixed to no point excepting by habit ; his means of subsist- 

 ence are everywhere, where he can employ his strength ; 

 the laws are for him only modes of oppression ; disor- 

 der and insurrection present to him some chance of 

 ameliorating his condition, and he is always at the dis- 

 posal of those who will pay him best. 



Landed property, whether it be extensive or not, by 

 attaching the owner of it to the soil, causes him to love 

 the government which protects it, and to respect the 

 laws which guarantee its possession. Since the num- 

 ber of proprietors of land in France has been tripled, 

 the leaders of insurrection amongst the people have not, 

 in the country, found any support. 



In a neighboring kingdom, where they count scarcely 

 twenty-five proprietary families, and where manufacturing 

 industry employs the greater part of the population, the 

 government is obliged to levy a tax of nearly three hun- 

 dred millions of francs, in order to give bread to the va- 



