It is no great evil, since the country is nearly a desert, and he devotes his leisure to exterminating large wild beasts.

He alone possessed the resources.

He is the only one that is able to construct the mill, the oven, and the winepress; to establish the ferry, the bridge, or the highway, to dike in a marsh, and to raise or purchase a bull.

To indemnify himself he taxes for these, for forces their use.

If he is intelligent and a good manager of men, if he seeks to derive the greatest profit from his ground, he gradually relaxes, or allows to become relaxed, the meshes of the net in which his peasants and serfs work unprofitably because they are too tightly drawn.