r-fowl and wild ducks lave.

Four million acres feels his rod;
A wilderness accursed of God.

[231] "Two millions of acres ... totally laid waste, embracing within
their area some of the most fertile lands of Scotland. The natural grass
of Glen Tilt was among the most nutritive in the county of Perth. The
deer forest of Ben Aulder was by far the best grazing ground in the wide
district of Badenoch; a part of the Black Mount forest was the best
pasture for black-faced sheep in Scotland. Some idea of the ground laid
waste for purely sporting purposes in Scotland may be formed from the
fact that it embraced an area larger than the whole county of Perth. The
resources of the forest of Ben Aulder might give some idea of the loss
sustained from the forced desolations. The ground would pasture 15,000
sheep, and as it was not more than one-thirtieth part of the old forest
ground in Scotland.... It might, &c.... All that forest land is as
totally unproductive.... It might thus as well have been submerged under
the waters of the German Ocean."--From the London "Economist," July 2,
1866, cited by Karl Marx in "Capital," p. 757, edition Swan-Sonnenschein
& Co., London, 1896.

[232] Rau's "Lehrbuch der Politischen Oekonomie," p. 367.

[233] Rodbertus: "Zur Beleuchtung der sozialen Frage."

[234] Similar conditions must have existed at the time of St. Basil. He
calls out to the rich: "Wretches that you are, what answer will you make
to the divine Judge? You cover the nakedness of your walls with carpets,
but do not cover the nakedness of human beings! You ornament your horses
with costly and smooth coverlets, and you despise your brother who is
covered with rags. You allow your corn to rot and be devoured in your
barns and your fields, and you do not spare even a look for those who
have no bread." Moral homiletics have since old done precious little
good with the ruling class, and they will do no better in the future.
Let the social conditions be changed so that none can act unjustly
towards his fellowman; the world will then get along easy enough.

[235] Hans Ferdy.

PART VI

CONCLUSION

CONCLUSION.

Our arguments have shown that, with Socialism, the issue is not an
arbitrary tearing down and raising up, but a natural process of
development. All the factors active in the process of destruction, on
the one hand, and of construction, on the other, _are factors that
operate in the manner tha