ABSTRACT
The property in the soil is the original source of all wealth, and has become the great problem upon the solution of which depends the future of the working class. In the progress of history the conquerors found it convenient to give to their original titles, derived from brute force, a sort of social standing through the instrumentality of laws imposed by themselves. If private property in land is indeed founded upon such an universal consent, it will evidently become extinct from the moment the majority of a society dissent from warranting it. The imperative wants of society will and must be satisfied, changes dictated by social necessity will work their own way, and sooner or later adapt legislation to their interests. All modern methods, such as irrigation, drainage, steam ploughing, chemical treatment and so forth, ought to be applied to agriculture at large.
