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Excerpt from The Awakening of England Let no one approach agricultural reform with a light heart, or crude theories. The labour will be Herculean. Land Reform, whether it takes the form of small ownership or small tenancy, only begins with them they are only the root, the branches are infinite and far-spreading. This problem of ours is the most difficult, as it is the most vital, that we have tackled in one hundred years. It must not be approached with the idea of swift results, or of a golden age. It will not bring back hundreds of thousands to the land at once, and it is undesirable that it should do so. It will be a gradual process, and this is all the better. The task of organising, as well as creating a new rural population on a large scale might easily Spell disaster; it would certainly breed vast difficulties. And the small man, labourer, artisan, or urban worker desiring to return to the soil, must not look for Arcadia. There are no eclogues to be written about the agriculture of to-day. The peasant owner must face hard work, a heavy struggle, much drudgery, some disappoint ment. His lot will not be easy; but it will be no harder than it is at present; and in this at least it will be better - that behind it will be hope, before it a future; that the man will be working for his own on his own; that he will be stimulated by the responsibilities of complete possession. - Sm Gmasn'r parker, m.p., in The English Review, June 1911. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.

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