Letters From Italy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I asked myself: Why are so many paving-stones required? Because the towns are constantly in creasing? Why does an ever-growing population pack itself amongst these cubes of bricks, amidst these whitened sepulchres It is because there, not in the country, the newly made capital is fixed, because also it is in the towns that the State and the communes spend the most. Money quickens the growth of men as manure does that of mush rooms. Is this a benefit? No. It would be better that the population should increase in the country rather than in the cities; life is more healthy, there is room to breathe, and agriculture is still, as ever, the most useful and beautiful labour.

This reasoning allowed me comfortably to revile the quarries, which, as a good economist, I ought to have admired.

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