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outdoor life and the sport that is in it. We want all 

 the brains we can get into agriculture as well as capital. 

 We want men to go into farming not because it is a 

 pleasant, healthy life, but because they can make 

 money out of it. Lastly, we want landowning to be 

 regarded, not as a luxury, but as a business requiring 

 as much study and energy as any other profession. 



In conclusion, Lord Selborne appealed to all political 

 parties, whatever their views on the land question 

 previous to the war might have been, to study the 

 question afresh in the light of the experience obtained 

 from the war, so that when the war was over, while it 

 was hopeless to expect that we should all be agreed 

 what the attitude of the State towards agriculture must 

 be as to particular measures, we should at least be all 

 agreed that there must be a complete recasting of 

 agricultural life. 



