Excerpt from War's Folly and FutilityWhen the taxing power is analyzed, when its purpose and its effect upon those in whose hands the power rests is noted, the slowness with which agriculture has reached even the crude development of today is explained. Tilling the soil is laborious and results uncertain, while farming farmers is easy and results certain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.