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Rh to him, and the maintenance of his family depends entirely upon its productions, it is natural to uppoe that the culture of it employs his whole attention Thoe who are of opinion, that the moderns have brought agriculture to greater perfection than the ancients, enible of the great influence of an Agrarian law, alledge, that equality of fortunes never was legally etablihed at Rome; and, as an evidence of this, mention the cenus in the rein of Servius Tullius. It is acknowledged, that, although an equal diviion of the lands was made by Romulus, yet matters could not continue long in this ituation. The Roman tate at firt ubited chiefly by plunder: As the nobles poeed the chief offices of the tate, they had alo the chief offices of the army; and, in conequence of this, obtained the larget hare of the plunder. Some perons, therefore, oon became richer than others and could afford to advance money to thoe who needed it. This frequently happened: For tiill the iege of Veii by Camillus, the oldiers were not paid out of the treaury, but were obliged to provide for their own maintenance. Hence, in every expedition, many of the people were obliged to borrow money, for which they paid at the rate of 12 ''per cent. per annum.'' By this high rate of interet, the monied men further enriched themelves. It appears likewie, that, after the diviion of the lands, ome of the citizens oon dipoed of their hares, and reided within the walls of the city. Hence the early ditinction between the country tribes and thoe of the town; the latter of which, being idle and lothful, were not reckoned o honourable as thoe of the country. ‘Ruticae tribus laudatiimae eorum, qui rura haberent. Urbanae vero, in quas transferri ignominia eet, deidiae probro;’ Plin. Nat. Hit. lib. cap. But, though perons were not confined to the quantity allotted to each citizen, yet there was uch a number of great men that poeed no more than this mall portion, for the coure of near 500 years from the building of the city, that the ame effect mut have been produced in the improvement of agriculture, as if the Agrarian law had been enforced in the trictet ene. .