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" rights are exercised; and accordingly these enclo-
" sures have repeatedly been made the subject of
" serious complaints."
When it is remembered that all the enclosures
now objected to were made since the date of this
Report, how can the existence of a bond fide belief in
their legality be possible ?
The next reason the Commissioners give, is that there
are5,000 acres left and that to throw down the enclosures,
" would work great loss and hardship to the owners
" and occupiers of those enclosures, and that if they
" had drawn any distinction between enclosures on
" which houses were built, or which were used as
" curtilages and gardens to houses and enclosures not
" so used or between enclosures which had been
" cultivated, and those which had not, it would create
" a sense of unfairness and hardship, for they all
" alike have the same infirmity of title, and that
" although the degrees of inequality would vary, the
" principle of inequality would be there, and the
" sense of hardship likewise.'' But to this very
weak reasoning, which now that there is a ladies
college at Girton, would not be expected even from
the other sex, there is an obvious answer. In the
affairs of this world we must deal with the practical
and not with theories, and although it is true that the
owners of enclosures upon which houses are built, or
which are used as gardens or curtilages to houses,