[704] Id. p. 126. A priest would often refuse to marry a couple who had no good prospect of a livelihood: so far could rational custom affect even ecclesiastical practice.
[705] Cp. Crichton and Wheaton, ii, 339-50; Laing, Journal of a Residence in Norway (1834-36), ed. 1851, pp. 22, 23, 34, 35, 191, 214.
[706] Crichton and Wheaton, ii, 345. Laing (Tour in Sweden, pp. 277-82) thought the Swedish peasants better off than the Scotch, though morally inferior to the Norwegian.
[707] Laing, Norway, p. 213.
[708] Laing, as cited, p. 220; Crichton and Wheaton, ii, 368.
[709] Sweden in 1800 stood at 2,347,303; in 1880, at 4,565,668; in 1900, at 5,136,441. Estimate for 1910, 5,521,943. Norway in 1815 stood at 886,656; in 1910 at 2,391,782.
[710] Laing, as cited, p. 103, note.