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 develop- 
ment and of its moral and economic characters.