ough there was no organic disorder,
there were plenty of abuses to be remedied. The ruling class, it seemed,
did its duties in the main, but took unconscionable perquisites in
return. If it 'farmed' them, it was right that it should have a
beneficial interest in the concern; but that interest might be
excessive. In many directions abuses were growing up which required
remedy, though not a subversion of the system under which they had been
generated. It was not desired--unless by a very few theorists--to make
any sweeping redistribution of power; but it was eminently desirable to
find some means of better regulating many evil practices. The attack
upon such practices might ultimately suggest--as, in fact, it did
suggest--the necessity of far more thoroughgoing reforms. For the
present, however, the characteristic mark of English reformers was this
limitation of their schemes, and a mark which is especially evident in
Bentham and his followers. I will speak, therefore, of the many
questions which were arising, partly for these reasons and partly
because the Utilitarian theory was in great part moulded by the
particular problems which they had to argue.

NOTES:

[35] Young's _Travels in France_ was republished in 1892, with a preface
and short life by Miss Betham Edwards. She has since (1898) published
his autobiography. See also the autobiographical sketch in the _Annals
of Agriculture_, xv. 152-97. Young's _Farmer's Letters_ first appeared
in 1767; his _Tours_ in the Southern, Northern, and Eastern Counties in
1768, 1770, and 1771; his _Tour in Ireland_ in 1780; and his _Travels in
France_ in 1792. A useful bibliography, containing a list of his many
publications, is appended to the edition of the _Tour in Ireland_ edited
by Mr. A. W. Hutton in 1892.

[36] _Annals_, xv. 166.

[37] _Travels in France_ (1892), p. 184 _n._

[38] _Travels in France_, p. 54.

[39] _Ibid._ p. 109.

[40] _Ibid._ p. 61.

[41] _Ibid._ p. 70.

[42] _Ibid._ p. 279.

[43] _Travels in France_, p. 125.

[44] _Ibid._ p. 131.

[45] _Ibid._ pp. 198, 298.

[46] _Ibid._ pp. 55, 193, 199, 237.

[47] _Ibid._ p. 43.

[48] _Travels in France_, pp. 291-92.

[49] _Ibid._ p. 132.

[50] _Ibid._ p. 66.

[51] _Ibid._ p. 131.

[52] e.g. _Southern Tour_, p. 103; _Northern Tour_, p. 180 (York
Cathedral).

[53] _Northern Tour_, iv. 344, 377.

[54] _Irish Tour_, ii. 114.

[55] _Southern Tour_, p. 326.

[56] _Southern Tour_, p. 22.

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