Excerpt from In the Good Time Coming

We all love Old England and desire that her goodness and glory shall increase. But though our ancestors have transmitted to us a brilliant record and a noble heritage, there are few of us who do not feel that some venerable institutions are unsuited to present requirements, and that an ideal state would be vastly superior to our own.

I have endeavoured to depict what Britain would be if our land tenure were brought into harmony with its fundamental principle, "that no subject can be the absolute owner of British land, " and that to each Briton was restored his or her natural estate in the use of it.

The people I have portrayed as too proud to accept favours! too industrious to tolerate idleness, too sensible to regard any honest occupation as degrading, too intelligent to fear truth, too honest to pervert it.

I now dedicate my little book to all who love justice and desire that Britain shall be the happy home of a free people.

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