Excerpt from Farming Corporations
"It is certain that the agriculturist must earn more than is necessary for his own support before any other person can contrive to exist. It was with some reason, therefore, that the economists and Adam Smith put him in the front rank of productive laborers. However scanty may be his share in the distribution of wealth, except he abide in the ship, none can be safe. It is true that in the rudest pastoral age the labor of the individual always produces more than is requisite for himself and his family. He can therefore be made to maintain others on his labor. Some of these consumers will benefit him, by Increasing his comforts, by allowing him to devote his undivided attention to his own industry or calling, and by furnishing him with economies in the conduct of his business. Some will quarter themselves as of right or by force on his labors, and will color their usurpation by alleging that he owes them allegiance or duty." - Prof. James E. Thorold Rogers, M.P., in Six Centuries of Work and Wages", p. 159
Prof. Rogers goes on to intimate that the claims of those who have thus quartered themselves upon labor have been disputed in the course of English social history, and that their pretensions may yet be disputed and criticised "when it is not anticipated or expected."
But the present work is not a contribution to the criticisms of the title of the fortunate classes in society.
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