Seriously, Prince Kropotkin has a great deal to say for his theories.... He has the genuine scientific temper, and nobody can say that he does not extend his observations widely enough, for he seems to have been everywhere and to have read everything.... Perhaps his chief fault is that he does not allow sufficiently for the ingrained conservatism of human nature and for the tenacity of vested interests. But that is no reason why people should not read his book, which will certainly set them thinking, and may lead a few of them to try, by practical experiments, to lessen some of the acknowledged evils of the present industrial system. Just notice what the Tory _Times_ says about "the tenacity of _vested interests_" and the "_acknowledged evils_ of the present industrial system." It is a great deal for the _Times_ to say. But what about the meat? Prince Kropotkin deals as satisfactorily with the question of meat-growing as with that of growing wheat, and his conclusion is this-- Our means of obtaining from the soil whatever we want, under _any_ climate and upon _any_ soil, have lately improved at such a rate that we cannot foresee yet what is the limit of productivity of a few acres of land. The limit vanishes in proportion to our better study of the subject, and every year makes it vanish farther and farther from our sight. I have, I think, quoted enough to show that there is no natural obstacle to our production in this country of all the food our people need. Britain _can_ feed herself, and therefore, upon the ground of her use for foreign-grown food, the factory system is not necessary. But I hope my readers will buy this book of Prince Kropotkin, and read it. For it is a very fine book, a much better book than I can write. It can be ordered from the _Clarion_ Office, 72 Fleet Street, and the price is 1s. 3d. post free. As to the vegetables and the fruit, I must refer you to the Prince's book; but I shall quote a few passages just to give an idea of what _can_ be done, and _is being done_, in other countries in the way of intensive cultivation of vegetables and fruit. Prince Kropotkin says that the question of soil is a common stumbling-block to those who write about agriculture. Soil, he says, does not matter now, nor climate very much. There is a quite new science of agriculture which _makes_ its own soil and modifies its climate. Corn and fruit can be grown on _any_ soil--on rock, on sand, on clay. Man, not Nature, has given to the Belgian soil its present productivity. And now read this--