e way; and that not; perhaps; the least striking; of exposing the folly; the stupidity; the inanity; the presumption; the insufferable emptiness and insolence and barbarity; of those numerous wretches who have now the audacity to propose to transport the people of England; upon the principle of the monster Malthus; who has furnished the unfeeling oligarchs and their toad…eaters with the pretence that man has a natural propensity to breed faster than food can be raised for the increase; it seemed to me that one way of exposing this mixture of madness and of blasphemy was to take a look; now that the harvest is in; at the produce; the mouths; the condition; and the changes that have taken place; in a spot like this; which God has favoured with every good that he has had to bestow upon man。書 包 網 txt小說上傳分享
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From the top of the hill I was not a little surprised to see; in every part of the valley that my eye could reach; a due; a large; portion of fields of Swedish turnips; all looking extremely well。 I had found the turnips of both sorts by no means bad from Salt Hill to Newbury; but from Newbury through Burghclere; Highclere; Uphusband; and Tangley; I had seen but few。 At and about Ludgarshall and Everley I had seen hardly any。 But when I came this morning to Milton Hill Farm; I saw a very large field of what appeared to me to be fine Swedish turnips。 In the valley; however; I found them much finer; and the fields were very beautiful objects; forming; as the