THE FARMER AND THE NEW DAY 



CHAPTER I 

 IS THE FARMER COMING TO HIS OWN? 



MANY centuries ago a certain wise man said that he 

 that holdeth the plow, and driveth oxen, as well as 

 every artificer, all who put their trust in their hands, 

 shall not be sought for in the council of wise men who 

 have leisure in which to prophesy, and to enter into the 

 subtleties of parables. What he meant to say was that 

 the common people are fundamentally necessary to the 

 world but do not govern the world. 



A few months ago another wise man, perhaps the 

 most far-sighted of his generation, bade us " search our 

 hearts through and through and make them ready for 

 the birth of a New Day a day, we hope and believe, 

 of greater opportunity . . . for the average mass of 

 struggling men and women." 



Which of these principles of human development 

 and influence is to prevail in the years and centuries 

 ahead of us? Which of these wise men is the true 

 prophet for our time he who condemned the com- 

 mon man to a position of minor influence in society, or 

 he who sees a new day for the average man? 



THE FARMER AS UNDERLING 



It is certain that during the centuries that have passed 

 since the wise man of Ecclesiasticus painted his picture 



