The complete works . norare represented (truly) as purer than those of their Revolution could not do away with this fatal anomaly;to this day the French peasant is a better man than his lord;and no government will be possible in France until she haslearned that all authority, before it can be honored, must 122 -FOES CLAVIGEKA. But, putting the romantic method of operation aside, thequestion remains whether Marmontel is right in his main ideathat a landlord should rather take £2,000 in rents, and return£1,000 in help to his tenants, than remit the £1,000 of rentsat onc
The complete works . norare represented (truly) as purer than those of their Revolution could not do away with this fatal anomaly;to this day the French peasant is a better man than his lord;and no government will be possible in France until she haslearned that all authority, before it can be honored, must 122 -FOES CLAVIGEKA. But, putting the romantic method of operation aside, thequestion remains whether Marmontel is right in his main ideathat a landlord should rather take £2,000 in rents, and return£1,000 in help to his tenants, than remit the £1,000 of rentsat once. To which I reply, that it is primarily better for theState, and iiltimately for the tenant, that administrativepower should be increased in the landlords hands; but thatit ought not to be by rents which he can change at his ownpleasure, but by fixed duties under State law. Of which, indue time;—I do not say in my next letter, for that would bemere defiance of the Third Fors. Ever faithfully yours, JOH^ KUSKIK.
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