The house of Industry : a new estate of the realm

RESERVATION ABOUT LAND AND RENT 43

The short point is that any self-respecting community must reserve full elasticity of action in all its dealings with mother earth.

The land problem is obviously not the agricultural problem, which is primarily one of production. A self-sustaining agriculture would speedily set rent in its true relation to labour. The agricultural industry, still the greatest in Great Britain, and beyond all comparison the greatest throughout the world, must be linked up with the House of Industry. A House of Industry without agriculture would be a modern feast of Timon—a gathering of men with the accoutrements of the campaign without the commissariat.