text:  From the bad feelings implanted in the minds of the peasantry they generally prefer living in comparative misery and allowing their land to remain in a state of nature whether they have leases or not rather than make any improvements which might tend to the landlords' ultimate advantage even though these improvements would produce immediate benefit to themselves; and this bad feeling is actually supported by the undisguised enmity which unfortunately of late years subsists between the gentry and the priests