Date: 1869
We make these remarks in order to show, that even if the system of landed tenure in this country is productive of wealth, yet that the distribution of this wealth is so unsatisfactory, that those whose labor is instrumental in producing it are miserably poor, and their life in every respect most unenviable.  They have, in fact, to work with the regularity of machines , without hope that their condition will be improved.  At the same time Mr. Fawcett agrees with Mr. Mill and Mr. Thornton, that peasant proprietors bring out of land a larger produce for the market, after feeding their families, than is yielded by the large tenant farms.