 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1852 - 672 pages
...would be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause ; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." In his description of the country at the foot of the Western Pyrenees, he speaks no longer from surmise,... | |
 | William M'Combie - Capital - 1852 - 116 pages
...contributed much to produce it. " Give a man," says Arthur Young, " the secure possession of a bare rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Uncertainty of tenure is fatal to the proper development of the resources of the soil. But, then, fixity... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1852 - 584 pages
...labor shall be rewarded — " the magic of property," says Arthur Young, " transforms sand into gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden. Give him a. nine year's kase of a garden und he will turn it into a desert." Fortunately for the interests of mankind,... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly - 1852 - 716 pages
...labor shall be rewarded — " the magic of property," says Arthur Young, " transforms sand into gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden. Give him a nine year's lease of a garden and he will turn it into a desert." Fortunately for the interests of mankind,... | |
 | William Edward Hearn - Distribution (Economic theory) - 1863 - 500 pages
...his rent. There is no more certain truth than that expressed in Arthur Young's wellworn aphorism, " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and...of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." § 9. The explanation of these conditions of energetic labour is found in Physiology. Labour implies... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1865 - 968 pages
...Arthur Young said that the magic of property had the power of converting sand into gold. He said — " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will convert it into a garden, give him a nine year's lease, and he will convert a garden into a desert."... | |
 | Joseph Fisher (of Youghal, the younger.) - 1866 - 356 pages
...wonders achieved by ownership, exclaimed, ' The magic of property transforms sand into gold : give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.' This will be the conviction of every unprejudiced person who visits these countries. Land is given... | |
 | Joseph Fisher (F.R.H.S.) - Agriculture - 1866 - 326 pages
...wonders achieved by ownership, exclaimed, ' The magic of property transforms sand into gold : give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.' This will be the conviction of every unprejudiced person who visits these countries. Land is given... | |
 | Nathaniel Tyler - African Americans - 1866 - 80 pages
...it would lose nothing. I am convinced with Arthur Young: " The magic of property turns sand to gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and...turn it into a garden. Give him a nine years' lease, and he will convert a garden into a desert." Besides, the negro children will annually be attaining... | |
 | 1866 - 580 pages
...quotation which I recently observed occur these apt words — " The magic of property turns sand into gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine yearn' lease, and he will convert a garden into a desert." I can only, in conclusion, repeat what I... | |
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Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. 
