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fatal error than this. Good rents cannot be kept up 

 unless with good wages, and good wages cannot be paid 

 unless rents are good : both should rise and fall together. 

 To increase production without proportionately increas- 

 ing the number of hands, and thereby to add to the 

 general comfort this is the ultimate object of economical 

 science, the solution of the greatest social difficulties. 



