Almost every nation in Europe has done for itself what England is now palled upon to do for Ireland.

In fact, it is a necessary process in the transition from feudalism to constitutional self-government.

Feudalism gave the land to a few whom it made princes and lords, having forcibly taken it from the many, whom it made subjects and serfs.

The land is the natural basis of society.

The Normans made it the artificial basis of a class.