Date: 1847
AGRICULTURE.  459 for the most part, either vexatious or impossible ; that the strict ob servance of conditions can rarely be enforced ; that, if it were, it would reduce the occupiers to the condition of mere machines ; that it would prevent them from taking advantage of such discoveries as might be made during the currency of their leases ; and that, having no means of escaping from the prescribed mode of management, they would cease to interest themselves in the progress of agriculture, and would become indifferent to every sort of improvement.  But these objections, though enforced by some high authorities, are really entitled to very little weight.