Note 214-6 — Chapter I

Compare Adam Smith, I, ch. 11, 2; supra, § 54. In Russia, nearly 80 per cent. of the population live immediately from agriculture; in Great Britain, in 1835, only 35; in 1821, only 33; in 1831, only 31½; in 1841, only 26 per cent. (Porter.) According to Marshall, there were, in 1831, in British Europe, 1,116,000 persons who lived from their rents, etc. In Ireland, there were, in 1831, over 65 per cent. of the population engaged in agriculture (Porter); in 1841, even 66 per cent.