Note 432 — Chapter VII · ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.
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In the article on Newenham he incidentally utters the paradox that in view of the low standard of food the people’s indolence is almost an advantage, for it prevents wages falling quite down to that level.—Art. p. 341. Cf. Essay, IV. xi. 456–7. For his view of potatoes in Ireland, ibid., 453.