CHAPTER IV 



From a consideration of the subsistence of society as a 

 whole we will proceed to a discussion of the mechanism 

 whereby science and land govern ' wages ' — the sub- 

 sistence of a section of society. 



The landless man, or wage earner, is a natural 

 phenomenon, and not a product of the institution of 

 private property. It was formerly supposed that the 

 agricultural labourer was doomed to servitude because he 

 was unable to obtain land. The facts, however, of the 

 New Worlds where there is land to be had by everybody 

 do not bear this out. The statistics of agricultural 

 labour in the New Worlds show that there are as many 

 land labourers there as here (see Table No. X). 



Table No. X 



Table showing the number of agriculturalists who 

 work on their own land and the number who work 

 for others. 



