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possessing as great a variety of climates, may need to export a 

 good deal, in order to pay for the many products of the colder 

 countries that she requires for her generally higher state of 

 civilisation. An island like Montserrat (p. 145) may require 

 the encouragement of capitalist industry, a country like Brazil 

 that of peasant agriculture. A country like Ceylon may require 

 the extension of existing crops, one like Brazil the introduction 

 of as many new ones as possible. One country may need the 

 proper settlement of conditions of transport, another the proper 

 provision of capital or of markets, for the progress of peasant 

 agriculture. Yet another may need a proper labour supply to 

 encourage capitalist agriculture : and so on. Our endeavour in 

 this book has been to set forth the whole problem as clearly as 

 may be, leaving those interested in any particular country to 

 decide the exact policy required there. 



