THE CALL OF THE LAND 



country is not too rich, but far too poor. 

 All increase of wealth is a general and pub- 

 lic blessing. It is this, into whosesoever 

 hands the new wealth falls, since those who 

 get the title to, and become the owners of 

 new wealth cannot take a single step toward 

 the utilization of it without sharing it with 

 the rest of us. 



I do not say that it makes no difference 

 how the titles to the wealth of a community 

 are distributed, that a country with innum- 

 erable millionaires will show as high a level 

 of general welfare as one equally wealthy 

 whose wealth is more widely scattered. 

 Other things being equal, it is, no doubt, best 

 that a nation's resources should be owned 

 by very many and not by very few. But I 

 do maintain and declare that, after all, 

 mankind's main economic interest is the 

 piling up of wealth. If little wealth exists, 

 most of us must be wretched; whereas, if 

 wealth is immense, however it is owned, all 

 but the idle will be benefited by it. 



But the wealth chances referred to will 

 not be turned to realities unless by pro- 



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