CHAPTER XIII. 



IN CONCLUSION. 



Looking back now upon what I have written, 

 I have some feeling of disquiet at the extent to 

 which political issues have forced themselves 

 forward for discussion in a consideration of the 

 English land problem ; but I have sought vainly 

 for a way in which that can be avoided without 

 condemning to futility the inquiry. Willingly 

 I would have avoided discussion of tariffs, of 

 taxes, of agricultural credit — all of which are in 

 a sense political issues — if that had been pos- 

 sible. But it was not ; and I can take comfort 

 only in the thought that my political criticisms 

 will be as little to the liking of the average 

 Unionist Party politician as to that of the aver- 

 age Liberal Party politician. That is a comfort, 

 because I am deeply convinced that in so far 

 as the evil things under which the land suffers 



