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Dr Wallace

Telegrams, Enock, Northwood.

Valley Croft,

Northwood,

Middlesex

and so I expressed it, that an island of 50 millions acres of productive land could not support a population of 45 (or 50 or 100) million people. It only does so now because we are buying and selling with all the world. As a pastoral people alone could we live? I don't know, but am endeavouring to study the matter without politics.

At present half our trade exists ^and industry exists in making and selling absolutely superfluous articles: and of moving things about unnecessarily. All this must come to an end with a wiser generation; and what will remain for the people[2] to live upon? Land and its resources. Therefore I have desired to make areas of colonial land the indelible property of our British municipalities against that day when each nation will require all its land and resources for its own people, and will cease to export food products, or to buy manufactured articles. If I am trying to effect a geographical impossiblity I shall have to learn it, but the success of private enterprise overseas, leads me to believe that we may be shareholders in property upon which we do not and cannot actually live. If this is not so, the world will have to become fully pastoral.[3]

But deep below all these methods, I am concerned with the welfare of that class which cannot work out its prosperity unaided. It is the fact that our colonial land has not yet been handed over to private ownership that attracts me; but may be allocated to the community, from[?] which ever since the time of Belshazzar^{2 the masses} they have been robbed.

I repeat, I want to steer a middle course in order to accomplish something practical; and the plan I am working [4] upon must be very similar to ideas viz: to establish more or less self-supporting communities, or re-colonisation at home, with an added colonial property. we must establish communities, not individuals.

The just thing is to arouse[?] thought on the matter. This I am trying to do, and have given half my very limited resources, both of time and money for some [one word illeg.] to it.

The enclosed may interest you. Would you care to lend your influence in any way to the matter of lecturing and publishing, which I am undertaking?

Very truly yours | C. Reginald Enock³

I wish we could meet. I should be extremely pleased to talk with you.