ABSTRACT
Agriculture is a great wealth-producing industry, creating amongst other things the food for the people. Provision of a home supply of food will be especially important after the war, since it may be difficult to obtain immediately what is needed from outside sources. Many distinguished Victorian thinkers used to argue that the English countryside should be looked on merely as a playground for the nation and that the nation should get all or almost all its food from abroad. There is no general rule that either large or small holdings are the more likely to produce more food per acre. The enrichment of the life of the individual has to be considered : it depends in part on conditions of life and in part on the character and temperament of the individual. It is, to use an old phrase, a problem of human dignity.
