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“A country is signally blessed above others, which can grow Indian corn.”

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Attributed to Arthur Young in: Henry Colman (1848), The Agriculture and Rural Economy of France, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland, from Personal Observation http://books.google.com/books?id=fAcOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA300, p. 300

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“every one but an ideot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious:: I do not mean that the poor in England are to be kept like the poor of France; but the state of the country considered, they must be (like all mankind) in poverty, or they will not work.”

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Arthur Young (1771), The Farmer's Tour through the East of England, v. 4, p. 361 https://archive.org/stream/farmerstourthrou04youn#page/360/mode/2up.

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“I have before proved the nation to be in the possession of a vast income, highly sufficient for all demands, to possess a vigorous agriculture, flourishing manufactures, and an extended commerce, in a word, to be a great industrious country. Now I conceive that it is impossible to prove such points, without proportionably proving the kingdom to be a populous one.”

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Arthur Young (1770) A six months tour through the north of England http://books.google.com/books?id=mf9KAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA557. p. 557; Partly cited in: Paul Mantoux (2013), The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century, p. 345

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