Eden is as to the horrors of the expropriation of the agricultural population from the soil, from the last third of the th century to his own time; with all the self satisfaction with which he rejoices in this process, essential for establishing capitalistic agriculture and the due proportion between arable and pasture land he does not show, however, the same economic insight in respect to the necessity of child stealing and child slavery for the transformation of manufacturing exploitation into factory exploitation, and the establishment of the true relation between capital and labour power.