THE DECENTRALISATION OF INDUSTRIES. 21 



which it will remain so long as it lives chiefly on im- 

 ported food produce. 



The chief reason for the successes of Germany in the 

 industrial field is the same as it is for the United States. 

 Both countries just now enter the industrial phase of 

 their development, and they enter it with all the energy 

 of youth and novelty. Both countries enjoy a widely- 

 spread scientifically-technical or, at least, concrete 

 scientific education. In both countries manufactories 

 are built according to the newest and best models which 

 have been worked out elsewhere; and both countries 

 are in a period of awakening in all branches of activity 

 literature and science, industry and trade. They enter 

 on the same phase in which Great Britain was in the first 

 half of this century, when British workers invented so 

 touch of the wonderful modern machinery. 



We have simply before us a fact of the consecutive 

 development of nations. And instead of decrying or 

 opposing it, it would be much better to see whether 

 the two pioneers of the great industry Britain and 

 France cannot take a new initiative and do something 

 new again ; whether an issue for the creative genius of 

 these two nations must not be sought for in a new 

 direction namely, the utilisation of both the land and 

 the industrial powers of man for securing well-being to 

 the whole nation instead of to the few. 



