We  hear  much,  at  the  present  time,  of  the  artificial  causes
which  tend  to  the  aggregation  of  estates.  We  may  do  much
by  destroying  such  of  these  artificial  causes  as  are  due  to
class  legislation,  or  to  the  permission  by  the  law  of  practices
which  are  inimical  to  the  public  interest.     But  the  House  of


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Lords  itself  is  the  most  powerful  of  all  these  artificial  causes.
