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readily acknowledge. If, and when, this realisation conies to pass there 

 will, I believe, develop all over the English countryside a class of landowners 

 who are informed about country affairs, a class of farmers who are able 

 and willing to pay rates of wages comparable with those which can be 

 obtained in other industries, a class of workmen who by their skill and the 

 value of their output make this rate of wages possible, and a general 

 community which realises the value to itself of a flourishing agriculture, 

 and is capable of thinking intelligently about the future of that industry, 

 and of facing with knowledge the problems of its own food supply. Then, 

 and only then, shall we be able to build up the new rural civilisation 

 of which so many have dreamed. 



