Date: 1867
This secures to France a healthy, hardy, and contented people; and, nevertheless, the popu lation of France is increasing much less rapidly than that of England.  In England the peasantry has almost disappeared ; their place is supplied by day labourers, and it is to our mids and machinery that we must look for support for the poorer classes.  Yet it will scarcely be denied, that, in tliese occupations, at least the physique of our people is deteriorated, and the workers themselves are notoriously discon tented.