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public and private use would be the outcome. These things 

 will without doubt eventually be provided for in statutes. 

 Land policies of great scope and influence upon country life are 

 bound to be more and more the subject of legislative enactment. 

 Legislation, if well considered, will rest upon investigation, 

 study, research. It is a very hopeful sign that an American 

 Association for Agricultural Legislation has been formed, to 

 furnish an impetus toward legislative study, publicity, and 

 wise enactment of law. A fundamental doctrine of true popu- 

 lation grouping seems needed most of all. Following this, 

 surveys may establish the location of these groups. Institutions 

 will thereupon spring up within these groups, and relations will 

 be established between group and group, making it possible 

 for the farm population to be connected vitally with the currents 

 of national life and progress. Hope, culture, and privilege 

 will thus follow freedom and the instruments of freedom. 



