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took into consideration the economical and 

 social value of the human being ? 



In the domain of agriculture it may be taken 

 as proved that if a small part only of the time that 

 is now given in each nation or region to field 

 culture was given to well thought out and socially 

 carried out permanent improvements of the soil, 

 the duration of work which would be required 

 afterwards to grow the yearly bread-food for 

 an average family of five would be less than a 

 fortnight every year ; and that the work re- 

 quired for that purpose would not be the hard 

 toil of the ancient slave, but work which would 

 be agreeable to the physical forces of every 

 healthy man and woman hi the country. 



It has been proved that by following the 

 methods of intensive market-gardening partly 

 under glass vegetables and fruit can be grown 

 in such quantities that men could be provided 

 with a rich vegetable food and a profusion of 

 fruit, if they simply devoted to the task of 

 growing them the hours which everyone willingly 

 devotes to work in the open air, after having 

 spent most of his day in the factory, the mine, 

 or the study. Provided, of course, that the 

 production of food-stuffs should not be the work 

 of the isolated individual, but the planned-out 

 and combined action of human groups. 



It has also been proved and those who care 



