These eight thousand scudi are distributed among a thousand or fifteen hundred poor creatures who are sadly in want of them.

Pasture-farming, on the contrary, is only profitable to three persons, the landlord, the breeder, and the herdsman.

Add to this, that in substituting arable for pasture farming, you substitute health for disease, a more important consideration than any other.
But churchmen who hold or administer lands in mortmain, will never consent to such a salutary resolution.

It does not profit them directly enough.

As long as they have the upper hand, they will prefer their own ease, and the certainty of their income, to the future welfare of the people.
Pius VI., a Pope worthy to have statues erected to him, conceived the heroic project of forcing a change upon them.