MAN’S AGRICULTURAL NEEDS 35
To place an agricultural population where it can
become successful, either by inducing the people of
the land to “work on the land,” or+by promoting
immigration of an appropriate character, is by no
means a simple matter. It involves expenditures of
capital, and is beset with political difficulties and also
with educational ones. It has been found that to
place men “on the land” without seeing to their
general fitness and technical knowledge is a mistake.
[n Russia-in-Asia recent political changes, and the
want of a general and suitable educational development,
offer difficulties, to overcome which the lapse of a
considerable period of time will be required. The
productivity of the human race, and the rate of its
progress, is a complex function of its state of development
 and of its moral and economic characters.