 | John Finnemore - 1908 - 124 pages
...would be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause ; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden." That is the secret. The French peasant works for himself, and enjoys the fruit of his own labours.... | |
 | London Municipal Society - 1908 - 556 pages
...therefore, that so eminent an authority was wont to declare that " the magic of property turns sand to gold. . . . Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden." * France, Germany, Canada, the States, and various other parts of the civilised world go to prove conclusively... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1909 - 476 pages
...would be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause : the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a' gaTtteirpgive hiura nine years lease of a garden, and he will conYCTt it into a desert. To Montadier,3... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 1086 pages
...copyholder is not less so than a freeholder. What is wanted is permanent possession on fixed terms. " Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into j a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert." The details... | |
 | Gilbert Parker, Richard Dawson - 1910 - 280 pages
...not find men holding the plough and turning up the furrow on their own freehold." Arthur Young : " The magic of property turns sand into gold — give...a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden." Houritt, on Rural Life in Germany : " The peasants are not, as with us, for the most part totally cut... | |
 | South Africa. Department of Agriculture - 1912 - 1014 pages
...remain as true to-day as when he penned those arresting lines : " The magic of property turns sands into gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." No man on a town lot,... | |
 | Matilda Betham-Edwards - 1912 - 378 pages
...to common sense to ask the cause; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the sure possession of a bleak rock, and he -will turn it into a garden" The italics are my own. When will Arthur Young have his tablet in Westminster Abbey, I wonder? The... | |
 | William MacDonald - 1913 - 108 pages
...Square. 88 CHAPTER III ARTHUR YOUNG: AUTHOR OK THE AGRICULTURAL TOUR " The magic of property turns sands into gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will f t/ ' turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease .of a garden, and he will convert it into... | |
 | 1913 - 800 pages
...Especially does he find ownership of land the great incentive of exertion. "Give a man," says Arthur Young, "the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden and he will convert it into a desert." Leo XIII speaks thus... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1915 - 398 pages
...would be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause : the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. To Montadier, over... | |
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Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. 
