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 86 THE LAND QUESTION.

Ireland? Did not the curse of an unjust social system rest on Louis XTV. and Louis XV. as well as on the poorest peasant whom it condemned to rags and starva- tionas well as on that Louis whom it sent to the block? Is the Czar of Russia to be envied ?

This we may know certainly, this we may hold to con- fidently : that which is unjust can really profit no one ; that which is just can really harm no one. Though all other lights move and circle, this is the pole-star by which we may safely steer.

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