If this article attempted to answer the question directly it would only' be another metaphysical discussion of the rights and wrongs of public and private ownership of land that would not add anything to the literature on the subject now burdening the shelves of our libraries. It will be sufficient if we can. show that one method of dividing up the land has the sanction of experience, that it has operated to the welfare of the people who have enjoyed its privileges, and that China has not been denied the benefits of that system which, unfortunately, is not universal throughout the world. There will be many who may rise up and de clare that what is said is false, that it does not represent the facts in the right light, the system is full of iniquity and injustice. But to such we can only plead that our argument is taken from experience of the best system that has as yet been given a fair trial over long period of years. As long as human nature is full of error there will be irregularities in any system that man may devise. The wrong is not with the system, but with the men who try to work the system for their own selfish gain, and they will do that with every system as long as men are what they now are.
According to the Bible, created the heavens and the earth therefore the: land belongs to Him. A hierarchy with God as the Land: lord! How ideal! But that impossible. It has never been successful. God has always been Tepresented by some human agent. who, because of the frailty of human' nature, has become avaricious, overbearing and cruel. The "divine right to rule," and the "divine right to own," which go together, have not proven an unmixed blessing to mankind.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.