OUR 

 ENGLISH LAND MUDDLE. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE PROBLEM STATED. 



AN explanation, if not an apology, should 

 1~\ preface a criticism from an Australian 

 visitor of the land system of the Mother Country. 

 True, it is possible in England, as it is possible 

 in almost all countries of the world which are 

 endowed with Parliaments and are inhabited 

 partly by voters, to be credited with the power 

 to arrive, by some mysterious process of instinct 

 or of intuition, at a full knowledge of the land 

 problem and its remedy. A complete plan for 

 the shaping of a perfect land policy comes forth 

 now and again from some quarter, evidently 

 without any tedious preliminary process of study. 



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