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ŒCONOMIC$ ANH S!fATIS!fICS. 191"'be.. êt\re, if by the knowledge of the disease they were half way, in'the comIl1only accepted idea of it, hy no means follows.And yet thelualady is by no means incurable, for the stamina vittE are possessed bythe patient in uncommon energy.The first light .thrown upon this interestingsnbjectto. an English eye isfurnished in the details su ppliedtn the.fou:rthvolumeofthe TravelsofMr. Marshall, whoever he was, forthis does not appear to have been.ever, duly ascertained; anù a veryparticular circumstance it is, that this said fourth volume, containingsnch satisfactory and compendious notices, has disappeared from circulatitinin England.Thegeneralopinion of this and of former days th,ere, is, and has been,thatigross.inegleet of their true interests, apathy to the claims of humannature Lill:gelllterwl,andcontempt for commonalty, swayed the minds ofthe greatof thiscountry.Nothing can he further from the truth.The people of the higher classes, the land proprietors of France, \Vereendo~ed withthe best~ the most benevolent intentions. They occasionaUyvisited theirestates, habit and political ties and restrictions pre-. .vented. tlieirdoiagany more, (this was the goverllment system); theyfiattered thetnselves tnat when there, they were making every onear0 1 tlnd them happy.When the peasant sought the e1imax of familyaDlbili{)n, tolaunch his son in a splendid livery iuto the rotten luxul'J(i)fParis; it was t0 his seigneur, as his natural protector, that he presentedhim for thepul'pose; 'rhe young:French nobleman was always gratifiedby, and acknowledged with kindness, the entryof a vassal's SOIl into hisregiment, and when the nobility visited their estates it was ~~ pom' fairedu bien." Such were the dailyincideIDts whichpresented themse)veseven to the cursory eye of the stranger.The subversion of the upper classescaul;ès which did not depend on them.D 2in latter days resulted tromlVlankind view things arO!lElIld