Excerpt from The Relations of Rents, Wages and Profits in Agriculture, and Their Bearing on Rural Depopulation In a brief survey extending over six centuries. It was necessary to confine the attention to the main lines of development, although throughout the economic tendencies have been brought to the test of crucial facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.