Resurrection

He could not choose the former because he had no means but the

landed estates (he did not care to serve); moreover, he had

formed luxurious habits which he could not easily give up.

Besides, he had no longer the same inducements; his strong

convictions, the resoluteness of youth, and the ambitious desire

to do something unusual were gone. As to the second course, that

of denying those clear and unanswerable proofs of the injustice

of landholding, which he had drawn from Spencer's Social Statics,

and the brilliant corroboration of which he had at a later period

found in the works of Henry George, such a course was impossible

to him.