So writes Mr. Cliffe Leslie about England in the present clay. Yet England was a country in which only a few generations ago, all, from the meanest peasant to the greatest noble had land, and in which he who had least might hope
for more. If this has happened in England with an old nobility and a gentry resident in the country and devoted to its service, what will be the fate of a, new country in which landowners have no traditions, recognise no other duty than that of making money from the land, and are certain, when they have made money, to become in almost all cases, absentees ? Of the enormity of the evil there can be no doubt. How best to guard against its growth we shall leave for a future number.
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Observer, Volume 2, Issue 36, 21 May 1881, Page 388
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