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THE CASE OF AGRICULTURE
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The advantages Great Britain possesses in her natural resources, her situation, her internal and external means of transport, her volume of capital, are greater than those of Germany. It is in the intelligent organization and direction of these advantages that we have fallen behind. Better scientific, technical, commercial, and general education among all classes of our people, trained intelligence in industry, is the first desideratum. But in order to get this use from education we must first believe in education. Faith must precede works. This is a hard saying for a people which has selected for one of its few public economies in war-time a "letting down" of all its educational services.

Our numerous colonies and protectorates scattered over the world should give our men of commerce an immense advantage over other nations, as outlook towers and vantage grounds for trade and for investments. But the modern successful trader must learn languages, mix on terms of easy

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