Excerpt from The Land ProblemIn this good work of elaborating and recuperating the earth we still have found no way to bring back the coal and metals we are wasting at such a fearful rate; but the pre cions nitrogen may be economized and restored by using less meat and calling in more of the product of the sea. The chemical processes by which potash and nitrogen may be got in available form for plant life are now being ih volved to produce by synthesis our most desirable food ele ments, without the long process of vegetation. By legisla tion the contamination of the atmosphere is restricted and poisoning of waters prevented. Immense sums of money are by government expended in experiment stations for the purpose of getting the most product for the least outlay, and of controlling insect life for the good of man. This is a kind of co-operative altruism in which all are taxed for the benefit of the land-worker.Now, what will this period add to the ethics of the land problem, and thereby to the advancement of society? What ought it to do for tenure, for waste, for recuperation, for elaboration, for conduct?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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