2 The State and the Farmer 



As the demands of civilization have devel- 

 oped, and particularly as world-competition 

 has arisen, the isolation-ideals of the land- 

 worker have been more and more inadequate 

 to meet the conditions. A new type of mind 

 has been forced on him. As community-ideas 

 have evolved, fellow land-workers have assumed 

 new relations to each other. As the commun- 

 ity-sense has grown into nationalism, and as 

 loyalty to the person of a local leader or ruler 

 has developed into patriotism, the organization 

 of society — or the government — has felt the 

 necessity of interfering with the land-worker, 

 as with other workers, for the benefit of 

 society at large. 



Governmental interference. 



With the enlargement of the necessities of 

 mankind, and the organization of society, 

 therefore, the land-worker has been pressed 

 by two opposite and somewhat opposing 

 forces, — the necessity of improving his own 

 practice, and the necessity of being compelled 

 to adopt certain methods and points of view 



