INTRODUCTION XXXlii 



is yet too early to rationalize all the new discussions 

 into a clear course of practice, but we are surely getting 

 nearer to the fundamental problems, and we shall evolve 

 a better system of agricultural procedure. The stimula- 

 tion of inquiry and imagination cannot fail to produce 

 great results. 



So am I glad of every new effort that puts men ration- 

 ally on their feet on the soil. It will be a great thing when 

 the soil is known in schools. I wait for good politics and 

 good institutions to grow out of the soil. I wait for the 

 time, also, when we shall have good poetry and good 

 artistic literature developing from subjects associated 

 with the soil; for we want good literature to appeal to 

 all men. 



