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many districts where communal land survives, and where 

 the peasant proprietor flourishes in consequence, 1 but else- 

 where, even in Russia, the small peasant proprietor is 

 declining. 2 



In short, on the continent the fabric of rural society is 

 undergoing- the same process of disintegration which 

 England first underwent at the close of the fifteenth 

 century, and our agricultural problem is beginning 

 to arise there. 



1 Cf. Adolf Damaschke, Aufgaben der Gemeinde-Politik. Part of 

 this has been translated by Miss Gurney for the Land Nationalisation 

 Society, May, 1907. 



2 Savine, Quarterly Journal of Economics, xix. p. 35. 



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