The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859

Project Gutenberg's Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 18, April, 1859, by VariousThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 18, April, 1859Author: VariousRelease Date: March 9, 2004 [EBook #11525] [Date last updated: August 7, 2005]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ATLANTIC MONTHLY, NO. 18 ***Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Tonya Allen and PG Distributed ProofreadersATLANTIC MONTHLY.A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.VOL. III.—APRIL, 1859.—NO. XVIII.AGRARIANISM.If we can believe an eminent authority, in which we are disposed to place great trust, the oldest contest that has dividedsociety is that which has so long been waged between the House of HAVE and the House of WANT. It began before thebramble was chosen king of the trees, and it has outlasted the cedars of Lebanon. We find it going on when Herodotuswrote his History, and the historians of the nineteenth century will have to continue writing of the actions of the parties to it.There seems never to have been a time when it was not old, or a race that was not engaged in it, from the Tartars, whocook their meat by making saddle-cloths of it, to the Sybarites, impatient of crumpled rose-leaves. Spartan oligarchs andAthenian democrats, ...