does a lawyer work as no navvy
works? Why does a cabinet minister labour the year through as hard
as a miner? Because they have a mental object. So will the labourer
work when he has a mental object--to possess a home for himself.

Whenever such homes become numerous and the new life of the country
begins to flow, pressure will soon be brought to bear for the
removal of the mediaeval law which prevents the use of steam on
common roads. Modern as the law is, it is mediaeval in its tendency
as much as a law would be for the restriction of steam on the
ocean. Suppose a statute compelling all ships to sail, or, if they
steamed, not to exceed four miles an hour! One of the greatest
drawbacks to agriculture is the cost and difficulty of transit;
wheat, flour, and other foods come from America at far less expense
in proportion than it takes to send a waggon-load to London. This
cost of transit in the United Kingdom will ultimately, one would
think, become the question of the day, concerning as it does every
individual. Agriculture on a large scale finds it a heavy drawback;
to agriculture on a small scale it is often prohibitory. A man may
cultivate his two-acre plot and produce vegetables and fruit, but if
he cannot get his produce to London (or some great city), the demand
for it is small, and the value low in proportion. As settlers
increase, as the village becomes its own master, and men pass part
at least of their time labouring on their own land, the difficulty
will be felt to be a very serious one. Transit they must have, and
steam alone can supply it. Engines and cars can be built to run on
common roads almost as easily as on rails, and as for danger it is
merely the interested outcry of those who deal in horses. There is
no danger. Fine smooth roads exist all over the country; they have
been kept up from coaching days as if in a prophetic spirit for
their future use by steam. Upon these roads engines and cars can
travel at a good fair pace, collecting produce, and either
delivering it to the through lines of rail, or passing it on from
road-train to road-train till it reaches the city. This is a very
important matter indeed, for in the future easier and quicker
transit will become imperative for agriculture. The impost of
extraordinary tithe--the whole system of tithe--again, is doomed
when once the country begins to live its new life. Freedom of
cultivation is ten times more needful to the small than to the large
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