...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. There are some parts of England (where small yeomen still remain) that resemble this country of Beam,...

...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 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. To Montadier,3 over a rough mountain covered with box and lavender ; it is a beggarly village, with...

...accordance with the philosophical and political tendencies of the age. Thus Arthur Young had said, " 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." 3 " The magic of property," he points out during his walk to Rosendal (near...

...the deserts around them into gardens.' ' Give a man,' he adds, in a phrase which is now a proverb, 'the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.' What has made all this misery ? he cries again and again ; what has blighted this magnificent country,...

...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...

...the great farmer-economist of England, said years ago, "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." And Adam Smith in his epoch-making book, "The Wealth of Nations," wrote nearly a century ago, "A small...

...would be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause: the enjoyment of property munt have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock,...of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." Again, November 7, 1787. " Walk to Rosendale [in Flanders]. Between the town and that place are a great...

...difficulties before it and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. The enjoyment of property has done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden." And Miss BETHAM EDWARDS, in writing of " France of to-day," speaks of : — " The almost entire self-sufficingness...

...has clothed the very rocks with verdure. The enjoyment of property has done it. Give a man the wcure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden." And Miss BETHAM EDWARDS, in writing of " France of to-day," speaks of : — " The almost entire self-sufficingness...