Our Artificial Conditions 



tion of ^150,000,000 worth could be won 

 from the soil, the law of Diminishing Returns 

 would render the process unprofitable and 

 uneconomic ; but this is not so, for we are at 

 present so far below the danger limit, that 

 we need only concern ourselves with the 

 law of Increasing Returns. 



Again, some people are temperamentally 

 opposed to all creative and constructive 

 action, because they deem it to be artificial. 

 Nothing artificial can succeed in the long run, 

 but it is the present conditions affecting land 

 that are really artificial. New and carefully 

 created conditions based on sound principles 

 need not be artificial, indeed, if they are 

 commercially sound, they cannot be so. 

 The present conditions are the outcome of 

 a public opinion that has never been sound 

 in regard to land, that has considered it an 

 amenity for the few, rather than a necessity 

 for the many ; and also they are the result 

 of legislation that has not only neglected 

 land but has often hampered its natural 

 development. Still others are opposed to 

 the State taking any action to improve the 

 condition of the people ; but our population 



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