CHAPTER XI 



A REVIVAL OF AGRICULTURE 



Ninth proposition. — The employers and workmen 

 whose aid is required are especially those on 

 the land. Therefore a revival of agriculture is 

 essential to Great Britain. 



Man might be defined as the animal that 

 presses into his service all the rest of nature. 

 Whether nature does more for him in agricul- 

 ture or manufacture is a point on which political 

 economists differ. There are certainly countries 

 in which nature does more in food production 

 than she does anywhere to aid the manufacturer. 

 But as manufacture and agriculture are both 

 indispensable to man, it is not perhaps important 

 to decide in which the greater fortunes are made. 

 It is more important that man gets from agriculture 

 what he can get in no other way. Most countries 

 therefore attend carefully to that industry. 



In the winter of 1910-1 1 a Canadian agricultural 

 official lectured in America on agriculture. Wish- 

 ing to impress on his audience the importance of 

 the subject, the lecturer named some great 

 countries giving the most careful attention to 

 agriculture; but he did not mention Great Britain. 

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