Excerpt from The Sorrows of IrelandHE national mind and will do not belong to the nation, but rather to a few privileged persons and groups, who thereby control the energy of the people to live on it, which makes progress impracticable, not merely in government, but also in life. That is my definition of the problem, but I defer the demonstration to tell first how intimately I have been forced into acquaintance with the data.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.