Chapter I: Front Matter

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ILLUSTRATIONS
OF
POLITICAL ECONOMY.

BY

HARRIET MARTINEAU.

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LIFE IN THE WILDS.
THE HILL AND THE VALLEY.
BROOKE AND BROOKE FARM.

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_IN NINE VOLUMES._

VOL. I.

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LONDON:
CHARLES FOX, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
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MDCCCXXXIV.

LONDON.
Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES,
Duke-street, Lambeth.

CONTENTS.

LIFE IN THE WILDS.
CHAP. PAGE
1. What have they left us? 1001
2. What is Wealth? 1022
3. Earn your Bread before you eat it 1030
4. Hand-Work and Head-Work 1043
5. Heart-Work 1055
6. Many Hands make quick Work 1070
7. Getting up in the World 1083
8. A bright Sunset 1099
9. Signs of the Times 1109

THE HILL AND THE VALLEY.
1. Every Man his Whim 2001
2. Much may come of Little 2017
3. The harm of a Whim 2030
4. Prosperity 2049
5. How to use Prosperity 2070
6. Disasters 2084
7. Discontents 2103
8. Uproar 2117
9. All quiet again 2133

BROOKE AND BROOKE FARM.
1. Brooke and its Politicians 3001
2. George Gray’s Way of Living 3016
3. George Gray in the Way to Prosper 3028
4. A Conversation under the Limes 3040
5. Past, Present, and to Come 3056
6. Sergeant Rayne’s Story 3072
7. Great Changes at Brooke 3083
8. Small Farming 3092
9. Great Joy at Brooke 3106
10. What Joe Harper saw Abroad 3114
11. What must come at last 3127
12. Prosperity to Brooke! 3132