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CHAPTER XL 



MARKETS. 



I COME now to the more immediate, the most effective 

 of the causes which have contributed to the advancement 

 of British agriculture ; namely, the simultaneous develop- 

 ment of the greatest industrial power, and the richest 

 commerce in the world. These are really only part and 

 parcel of those just mentioned, for industry and commerce, 

 like agriculture itself, are the offspring of liberty, order, 

 and peace ; and these prime conditions originating for the 

 most part with the rural portion of the nation, the whole 

 may be said to proceed from this common source. But 

 just as the consequences of liberty and peace are to be 

 distinguished in their effects from those belonging to rural 

 life, properly so called, so may those which proceed from 

 industrial and commercial development be considered 

 apart; and the latter are the most active. If it were 

 possible for a nation to be largely engaged in manufactures 

 and commerce without possessing either security or 

 liberty, this of itself would be sufficient to cause great 

 agricultural prosperity ; arid if it were possible for a nation 

 to possess liberty and peace without becoming, from that 

 sole fact alone, large manufacturers and traders, liberty 

 and peace would not be sufficient, even with the aid of 

 rural habits, to produce an equal amount of prosperity. 

 Some minds, judging more from appearances than 



