UNEMPLOYED  CAPITAL  AND  LAND

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which  is  forced  more  and  more  upon  thinking  men  and
women  :  “  Has  our  general  standard  of  consumption  risen
to  a  degree  commensurate  with  the  prodigious  increase
of  productive  power  brought  about  by  modern  improvements ­
  in  machinery  and  methods  of  industry,  and  vested
in  modern  forms  of  labour  and  capital?”