In a great industrial state, whose agriculture cannot ke<* 'ts population, such a result might perhaps be regarded as useful or at any rate as not absolutely injurious ; but a country like Italy, where manufactures were inconsiderable and agriculture was altogether the mainstay of the state, was in this way systematically ruined, and the welfare of the nation as a whole was sacrificed in
the most shameful fashion to the interests of the unproductive population of the capital, to which in fact bread could never become too cheap.
the most shameful fashion to the interests of the unproductive population of the capital, to which in fact bread could never become too cheap.
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
