beginning of a wider struggle against private property in general.
In view of the form in which particularly the latter panacea was
put forward, they may very well have been right in this
assumption.
On the whole, the defense against the broad masses was not very
skillful and by no means struck at the heart of the problem.
Thus there remained but two ways of securing work and bread
for the rising population.
3. Either new soil could be acquired and the superfluous millions
sent off each year, thus keeping the nation on a selfsustaining
basis; or we could 4. Produce for foreign needs through industry
and commerce, and defray the cost of living from the proceeds.
In other words: either a territorial policy, or a colonial and
commercial policy.
Both ways were contemplated, examined, recommended, and
combated by different political tendencies, and the last was
finally taken.
The healthier way of the two would, to be sure, have been the
first.
The acquisition of new soil for the settlement of the excess
population possesses an infinite number of advantages,
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