Socialism and Agriculture (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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In 1820 the turn of this particular parish came, and its acres of commons went in. I used to know an old man of the locality who remembered when they went in. He used to speak of the occurrence as one might speak of a sinister and fatal event of nature - a landslide or an earthquake. There was no idea that it could have been prevented. The commons simply went in! The country folk witnessed the proceeding with dismay but, terrorized by their landlords, and with no voice in Parlia ment, they were helpless.

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My object in this paper is simply to describe the economic conditions of a single country parish, here in England, and from the consideration of these conditions to draw some inferences towards our future policy with regard to the land. In modern life - in every department of it, one may say - bedrock facts are so veiled over by complex and adventitious growths that it is difficult to see the proper and original outline of any problem with which we are dealing; and so it certainly is in this matter of the land question. Any one glancing at a country village, say in the neighbourhood of London, probably sees a mass of villas, people hurrying to a railway station, motor-cars, and so forth; but as to where the agricultural workers are, what they are doing, how they live, what their relations may be to the land and the land owners -these things are obscure, not easily seen, and difficult to get information about. And yet these are the things, one may say, which are most vital, most important.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.