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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: trade, he is gradually furnished with the means. Thus, to
balance the tendency which leads men to divide their estates,
there exists another, which incites them to add to them. This
tendency, which is sufficient to prevent estates from being
divided ad infinitum, is not strong enough to create great
territorial possessions, certainly not to keep them up in the
same family.]
Most certainly it is not for us Frenchmen of the nineteenth
century, who daily witness the political and social changes which
the law of partition is bringing to pass, to question its
influence. It is perpetually conspicuous in our country,
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