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years. To-day there are thousands more, all skilled, experienced, 

 and capable men. Then take any one of the great manufacturin;:^ 

 industries that have S])rung into existence during the last fifty 

 years and made Britain famous all the world over. Had tlie 

 promoters made the subject of finding a sufficiency of skilled 

 workers for their various undertakings a matter for controvers/j, 

 many of them would liave been still " in the air," even to this 

 day. They, one and all, took the better part ; they knew that 

 raw human material is as capable of being worked, moulded 

 and fashioned into the requisite form as is the clay in the hands 

 of the potter, and they simiAy— fashioned it. 



Every man who is free of prejudice, uninfected with that 

 evil s])irit of controversy and scepticism which unfortunately 

 characterises many of the British people to-day, and who 

 happens to remain in possession of his sober senses, knows per- 

 fectly well that if a completely new industry like that of cycles 

 and motor cars, and many others that are absolutely new to tlie 

 human race, can be launched into being, furnished with capable 

 " hands," easily mastered, and conducted with skill to success- 

 ful issues, it follows that an old-world industry like agriculture, 

 about which almost every living man knows something, can bo 

 similarly dealt with. Indeed, the case is so obvious, and the 

 proposition capable of so simple a demonstration, that to deny it 

 further would be to display regrettable obstinacy. 



The Clay can be easily Fashioned 



Afrriculture can be supplied with hundreds of thousands and 

 even millions of capable men who would work their holdings, 

 small or large, to successful results, but they will have to be 

 moulded, fashioned, and trained in precisely the same manner as 

 men are trained for every other industry. If, in the process, 

 some of the raw material proves faulty and unsuitable, as not 

 infrequently happens to the clay, and some of the pots are broken 

 in the moulding, it cannot be helped. Agriculturists who happen 

 to be in training for the land industry must take their chance 

 as men in other industries do ; but whatever happens in the pro- 

 cess, one thing is certain, namely — that any number of first-class 

 agriculturists will surely he forthcoming for any extension of the 

 land industry, in precisely the same way that a sufiicicncy of 

 callable men has always been found for the extension of other 

 industries — or even for the equipment of ncio ones. Kcperto crede ! 



The Tehkitoiual Auistocuacy JUDf;ED wx Eesults 



The second point— the value of the " Territorial Aristocracy," 

 is one that has formed a favourite theme for economic " experts " 



