tion the rule rather than the exception."
I must deny that I ever said that the coal-miner says he wants to be ruled by his betters. I may not be a democrat; but I am not a snob. Intellectually I am a snob, and you will admit that I have good ground for that. Socially I am not a snob. There is no question of betters at all in the matter. The manager is not better than the executant, nor the executant better than the manager. Both are equally necessary and equally honorable. But if you ask the executant to manage he will refuse on the ground that it is not his job; and vice versa.
Mr. Chesterton says he does not see why State officials under a system which recognises nationalisation of land should not act as the old landlords acted. I should say, in the first place, they won't have the power. A State official does what he is instructed to do and paid to do, just as a landlord's agent does; and there is no more danger of the official making himself a landlord than there is now of the agent making himself one.
As to the instinct of owning—and you have it widely in the country—you have not got it in the towns. People are content to
