58 THE LAND WE LIVE ON 



should be recruited from the most intelligent and persevering 

 of workers. 



In " Time and Tide " Ruskin says : — 



" A labourer serves his country with his spade just 

 as a man in the middle ranks of life serves it with sword, 

 pen or lancet." and finally " ISow the fulfilment of all 

 human liberty is the peaceful inheritance of the earth, 

 with its herb yielding seed, and fruit tree yielding fruit 

 after his kind, the pasture, or arable land, and the blossom- 

 ing or wooded and fruited land uniting the final elements 

 of life and peace, for body and soul." 



