A PLEA

FOR

PEASANT PROPRIETORS;

WITH

THE OUTLINES OF A PLAN FOR THEIR ESTABLISHMENT
IN IRELAND.

BY

WILLIAM THOMAS THORNTON,

AUTHOR OF 66 OVER-POPULATION AND ITS REMEDY."

Modum agri imprimis servandum.

PLINII NAT. HIST., Lib. xviii.-7.

The lands of a country cannot be properly distributed, nor its agricultural
economy be of the most improved description, unless it contain a due admixture of
small, and of moderate-sized, as well as of large farms.

MACCULLOCH ON SUCCESSION TO PROPERTY.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.