...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...garden; 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...

...tenancy so prevalent and ownership so limited. A century ago, Arthur Young said, " Give a man the assured possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into...Give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will turn it into a desert." When small freeholds are diffused throughout a State, when the bulk of the...

...proprietor ; a copyholder is not less so than a freeholder. What is wanted is permanent possession on fixed terms. " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak...rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him aniñe years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." The details which have been...

...with his hands there is no savingsbank whose attractions can be compared with the land. " Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden....The magic of property turns sand into gold 1 ." The peasant proprietor can give every hour...

...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,...

...would be a disgrace tocommon 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, d'esert. To Montadier,3 over a rough mountain covered with box and lavender ; it is a beggarly village, with...

...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...give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will turn it into a desert." Many of the vineyards which greet the eye of the traveller, along the Khine,...

...the secure possession of a bleak rock," said Arthur Young in reference to peasant proprietorship, " and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine...of a garden, and he will convert it Into a desert." JBS POLITICS IN THE MAGAZINES. FOKUM (December).— In " The Stability of the French Republic" M. Jules...

...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." Yet a little farther southward of Nimes we come upon transformations much more startling. A visit to...

...intelligent, and the most successful." Arthur Young makes this striking and enthusiastic remark : " Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden." Nothing can be more conducive to the success of the farmer's enterprise than the confidence that' his...