Arthur Young Quotes

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No person can have been in Norfolk without quickly perceiving, that in this branch of rural economy the county has very little to boast. No where are meadows and pastures worse managed: in all parts of the county we see them over-run with all sorts of spontaneous rubbish, bushes, briars, rushes: the water stagnant: ant-hills numerous: in a word, left in a state of nature, by men who willingly make all sorts of exertions to render their arable land clean, rich and productive.

Arthur Young
I have before proved the nation to be in the possession of a vast income, highly sufficient for all demands, to possess a vigorous agriculture, flourishing manufactures, and an extended commerce, in a word, to be a great industrious country. Now I conceive that it is impossible to prove such points, without proportionably proving the kingdom to be a populous one.

Arthur Young
A vast change had taken place in English social life within two generations... View the navigation, the roads, the harbours and all other public works. Take notice of the spirit with which manufactures are carried on. Move your eye which side you will, you behold nothing but great riches and yet greater resources.

Arthur Young
Give a man the secure possession of bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Arthur Young
A country is signally blessed above others, which can grow Indian corn.

Arthur Young
Every one but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

Arthur Young
Up to the time of the foundation of the Institute of Physics, the physicists had hardly been recognized as a member of one of the professions.

Arthur Young
There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Arthur Young
Catch the disease, that we may show our skill in curing it!

Arthur Young
The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

Arthur Young
Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion.

Arthur Young