2 The State and the Farmer 



As the demands of civilization have devel- 

 oped, and particularly as world-competition 

 has arisen, the isolation-ideals of the land- 

 worker have been more and more inadequate 

 to meet the conditions. A new type of mind 

 has been forced on him. As community-ideas 

 have evolved, fellow land-workers have assumed 

 new relations to each other. As the commun- 

 ity-sense has grown into nationalism, and as 

 loyalty to the person of a local leader or ruler 

 has developed into patriotism, the organization 

 of society or the government has felt the 

 necessity of interfering with the land-worker, 

 as with other workers, for the benefit of 

 society at large. 



Governmental interference. 



With the enlargement of the necessities of 

 mankind, and the organization of society, 

 therefore, the land-worker has been pressed 

 by two opposite and somewhat opposing 

 forces, the necessity of improving his own 

 practice, and the necessity of being compelled 

 to adopt certain methods and points of view 



