Conclusions 



the United Kingdom than there has been 

 in the past. Capital must be used primarily 

 for developing the Empire and its resources, 

 rather than the resources of foreign countries. 

 There will be very great need for patriotic 

 finance at the end of the war, to assist in 

 the most speedy recuperation possible. 



The large increase in home-grown food, 

 advocated in this book, would replace the 

 food now imported from foreign countries. 

 Except in the case of wheat our dominions 

 would not be seriously affected ; and as 

 they develop more manufactures, there will 

 be an increasingly large exchange between 

 urban and agricultural products within their 

 own boundaries. In every country this 

 exchange of commodities is the soundest of 

 all exchanges, and should be developed to 

 the full. To increase our home-grown 

 supply of food by ;^ 150,000,000 would be 

 a great achievement — the effects would be 

 far reaching — and every section of the com- 

 munity would benefit. This is surely worth 

 attempting. 



Some may say that it is useless to attempt 

 it, because long before an increased produc- 



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