is to be published.

The subject is one that must attract an increasing amount of attention on the part of all who have the true interests of the state at heart.

There can be no doubt that the Parliamentary machine has failed, lamentably, to grapple with the problems you have referred to.

At the present time, when some of our most earnest statesmen and greatest thinkers are discussing the supposed commercial decadence of the nation, the publication of such a treatise as you have prepared is opportune, and a perusal of it prompts the thought that the main remedy lies deeper, and may be found in sociological even more than in economic reform.
I do not profess myself competent to express any opinion regarding the remedy you propose.

That is a matter for a carefully selected expert Royal Commission.