WAGES 



II 



Now if we had a plant that gave a great deal of 

 produce and worked ceaselessly, it might be possible 

 with the setting up of a single plant for us to be satisfied 

 for the rest of our lives. But the plant-organism has 

 not been made by us ; it has been received by us from 



Table No. I 



Table showing that the ingredients of food (other 

 than water) on each square mile of the earth's dry 

 surface suffice for 14,000,000 people. 



nature, and such as it is we must take it. In searching 

 through the whole of the plants supplied by nature 

 the sort that we have found the most serviceable gives 

 individually very little food, and, having given it once, 

 dies. It follows from this that we must set out a great 

 number of these plants, and that we must repeat the 

 operation as soon as they have given their yield. 



Shortly, therefore, the problem of the extent of 

 living which a man can make resolves itself into the 



