 | George Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley - Agriculture - 1881 - 296 pages
...adjoining villagers to acquire it in property ; " and he added the words which have become a proverb, " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will turn it into a desert. The magic of property turns sand into gold." This opinion of Arthur Young, of... | |
 | Criticism - 1881 - 868 pages
...Switzerland is the most perfect, and economical, anywhere seen. " Give a man secure possession of a rock, and he will turn it into a garden : give him a nine year's lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert."* In Great Britain the land laws sanction... | |
 | George John Shaw- Lefevre (baron Eversley.) - 1882 - 42 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, and he will turn it into a garden. Give a man a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Arthur Young, notwithstanding... | |
 | John Milton Gregory - Economics - 1882 - 408 pages
...laborer. Economists frequently quote, with approval of its truthfulness, the saying of Arthur Young : " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden." The small farmers of France, whose little fields give such a patch-work look to the country, have,... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Land tenure - 1883 - 268 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,...a garden. ' and he will convert it into a desert" Again, take his description of the country at the foot of the Western Pyrenees : — " A succession... | |
 | English periodicals - 1883 - 558 pages
...disgrace to common sense to ask the cause ; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn...years' lease of a garden and he will convert it into a desert."1 1 For these and many other examples see Thornton's Pica for Peasant Proprietors. It hardly... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Depressions - 1885 - 144 pages
...summed up in one pregnant sentence the results of the two forms of tenure. ' Give a man,' says he, ' the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.' But a perpetual lease at a fixed rent is peasant-proprietorship, as was pointed out by John Stuart... | |
 | Wages - 1885 - 788 pages
...' secure possession,' which has the magical effect. Hence Arthur Young's second axiom, ' Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.' So that we may be sure that the best examples of what peasant farms can show under a few benevolent... | |
 | James Stephen Jeans - Great Britain - 1885 - 482 pages
...League, are accustomed to rest the theoretical part of their case on Arthur Young's axiom : " Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn...; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he converts it into a desert." Has this principle been confirmed by the experience of English agriculture... | |
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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. 
