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tinually, and without intermiffion, to the utmoft of his power; and nothing but a leafe, legally certain, can imprefs this conviétion on his mind. I confider that kind of metaphyfical refinement in rea- foning, which confounds pofidilities, with thin gs pradicable by man, as one of the greateft curfes that can be introduced into fo- ciety: and I fear, that here, as well as in other inftances, it’s effecis have been exceedingly baneful among mankind.

(¢ page 94.) Thofe who are fond of political calculations may have here full{cope for their ingenuity, by fuppofing that two men, of equal{pirit, knowledge and capital, fet out in the agricul. tural line,—one of them as a farmer ona leafe of the kind here propofed, and the other as a{mall proprietor, or Yeoman. Let the capital be taken any how at random, fay zo00l. The Yvoman

we fhall fay, lays out 1500l. of that fum. on the purchafe of a i r farm, which, at thirty years purchafe, the ufual rate at prefent,| would be worth sol. a year; and he has sool. left for ftocking i;

and improving it. The other leafed a farm, which, at a fair rent, was worth 2ool. a year. Let him follow out the calculation,— q firft in regard to the profits that the different occupiers themfelvyes can enjoy, and the rate at which their families may afford to liye;

—and, fecond, with regard to the augmentation of agricultural produce that each of them could afford to the ftate; and let this be continued for the fpace of an hundred years. Let him then {trike the balance, and fee what an amazing difference!

(f; page 120.) I confider entails, and other fuch ridiculous attempts to perpetuate a name, as alike impious, impotent, and

impolitic, in a ftate of fociety like that which prevails at prefent in Europe, and liable to produce political diforders of the moft dangerous fort, Wherever ideas of luxury prevail, and thofe ideas of perfonal freedom which alone can give energy to human exertions, entails produce a kind of fetters that are incompatible with thefe notions, and therefore prove extecdingly galling to a