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CHAPTER VI.
METHODS OF ECONOMY.
"It was with profound wisdom that the Romans called by the same name courage and virtue.

There is in fact no virtue, properly so called, without victory over ourselves; and what cost us nothing, is worth nothing."-- _De Maistre_.
"Almost all the advantages which man possesses above the inferior animals, arise from his power of acting in combination with his fellows; and of accomplishing by the united efforts of numbers what could not be accomplished by the detached efforts of indivduals."-- _J.S.

Mill_.
"For the future, our main security will be in the wider diffusion of Property, and in all such measures as will facilitate this result.

With the possession of property will come Conservative instincts, and disinclination for rash and reckless schemes....

We trust much, therefore, to the rural population becoming Proprietors, and to the urban population becoming Capitalists."-- _W.R.


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