text:  Seeing then that men placed in the most favourable circumstances both as regards the moderation of their rents and the length of their tenures are generally more wretched in the appearance of their dwellings and more neglectful of the cultivation of their farms than those at the mercy of landlords represented to be the most tyrannical on earth--we must seek the cause of the degraded state of the people elsewhere than at the door of the owners of the soil