Excerpt from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth CenturyI must plead that one cannot have the dessert without the dinner. And that a firm foundation of fact, even though as tedious to read as to arrange, is a necessary preliminary to the higher and more philosphical task of analysing economic conceptions. The reader who, desires to start with a bird's eye view of the subject is advised to turn first to the con eluding chapter of Part III.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.