"England has been a landlord's country.the state is entirely divorced from the land execpt when,as in the case of Crown lands it assumes the function of landlord.The whole rural system has been built up and has hither to rotated round this central fact.Any incremental values that accrued during the course of centuries,whether the result of improvements or of any change in money value.pass in consquence to the landlord and tenant. the relative share between the two beingg adjusted in the rent.The State received no regular part of such increment through ,owing to the rise in administration costs,such taxes as death duties which have in recent years been imposed, do form such a drain on estates, but a drain which is less satisfactory, because irregular in incidence.
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