Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

In the brief preface is expressed the hope that 'it may be found that these principles settle questions of agrarian socialism. … Though the process was savage the outlook which it afforded was not wholly evil.

John Bates Clark (January 26 1847 – March 21 1938) was an American neoclassical economist.