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Excerpt from French Thoughts on Irish Evils The year 1863 has bestowed on Ireland a good harvest f - wheat, oats, hay, potatoes; nothing is wanting. When, the soil feeds its inhabitants, Ireland has little more to suffer than the ordinary ills of mankind. In countries where wealth has been accumulated from a distant time, national capital supplies in part the deficiency of a bar Vest: it acts like a well-filled granary, and, thanks to this, an alimentary crisis is transformed into a financial or monetary crisis. In Ireland, where there is no reserve of food or of capital, a deficiency in the harvest produces its direct effect - famine. We ought to welcome the present good harvest, yet not allow it to delude us; the causes which have made in Ireland distress habitual, and famine periodical, have not disappeared. We have had merely a moment's respite, of which we ought to profit to study the causes of a misery which resists civilisation, and almost makes us doubt its eflicacy. Ireland is free (an opportunity for saying so was afforded us in a previous 'revue' as free as England.l She enjoys civil liberty, political liberty, commercial liberty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.