Excerpt from The Reform of the English Land System IN discussing the Reform of the English Land System, we have to consider how far it may be expedient to modify that System, either in the special interest of agriculture, or in the general interest of social and political well-being. But we cannot hope to form a just conception of the English Land System as it ought to be, without having a practical knowledge of the English Land System as it is that is, of those distinctive and typical features which characterise it among the Land Systems of the world. Such a study is especially interesting at the present moment, when the Irish Land System has just been subjected to radical changes, and when the English Land System itself has been placed on its trial, not only by the progress of democratic ideas, but also by the inevitable effect of agricultural depression, the severest and the most prolonged which has occurred within living memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.