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WAGES AND EMPIRE 



Now, when people cultivate inferior land a good deal 

 of the increased power to make food which improvements 

 of plants and improvements of human strength give 

 is lost. The increased yield of the plant is negatived 

 by the poor quality of the soil, and the increased power 

 given to men is lost because it must be spent on amelior- 

 ating the land. This is why progress, civilisation, and 

 science, although they fully obtain in some parts of the 

 world, have not done for the mass of the people that 

 which was expected of them. 



All this is fully illustrated bj^ a comparison of the 

 state of Europe with that of the countries of the New 

 Worlds. 



Table No. VII 



Table comparing certain tracts of the earth in respect 

 of area, density of population, and extent to which each 

 has been laid under contribution for cultivation pur- 

 poses. 



In Europe, as will be seen from the accompanying 

 table (No. VII), a population of four hundred and 

 twenty millions is crowded upon an area of 3,800,000 

 square miles, making a density of no persons per 

 square mile ; while in the principal countries of the 

 New Worlds — America, Canada, Australia, and New 



