text:  It is a great mistake to imagine that leases are in no instance granted: the truth is that they are still very generally given; and that in a great majority of those instances where they are withheld they are so withheld not with the intention of taking advantage of the tenant's improvements or depriving him of his political rights (as the English people are led to believe ) but for the purpose of compelling him to improve and to live comfortably in spite of his own predilections