text:  The truth is--and this is one of the great sources of Irish misery--that by the constant agitation of which (under one shape or another) he is almost always the victim the Irish peasant is induced to consider himself as the worst treated of God's creatures; by it he is kept in a continual state of dependence on anticipated events which leads him to expect the amelioration of his condition by means of political convulsions rather than by patient and persevering industry