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RURAL RECONSTRUCTION 



interest they would be sure to do a great deal better and to better 

 purpose. Then there is protection still held up as the one thing 

 needed — to make produce artificially dear, when all the world is 

 crying out that it is much too dear already, and the people want, 

 above all, to have things cheapened. Labour is, on the one side, to 

 be petted, on the other to be made war upon, to be denied employ- 

 ment by " lazy farming," or else to be taken into partnership in the 

 profits. In respect of the creation of social community life in the 

 village, suggestions and proposals are many. But there is as yet 

 no co-ordination in them. They will have to be reduced to some- 

 thing like order. All round there is something like chaos in the whole 

 business. The boisterous fermentation must at length be made to 

 yield a pure, clear and consumable liquid. It is in aid of such 

 process that the suggestions set forth in the following pages are 

 offered. 



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