Excerpt from Appreciations and Depreciations: Irish Literary StudiesThe preservation of Irish landlords as a class, though divested of territorial power, so o'crady de fined his intention, but he spoke to men who, if they could have understood him, would not have found themselves in the plight which had aroused his pity and indignation. In vain, he urged upon them the necessity of regarding the Agrarian Movement in re lation to the general stirring of democracy throughout Western Europe, and of formulating a policy based upon the accepted democratic facts of contemporary history. His hearers were as blind to the significance of the history of their own time as they were oblivious of that past history which o'crady marshalled against their claims for Compensation and assistance from England.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.