Unlike capital, land is not created by labor, and therefore, no amount of economic policy manipulation is going to add to or subtract from the amount of land in the universe. In Political Economy land is all that exists without the labor, or even the existence, of man. It would be a great thing if we could create more land by encouraging land ownership just as we can cause the creation of more capital through encouraging capital ownership. But such is not the case. When we wish to derive economic policies that increase the common good so as to embrace the system of capitalism, we will not do so by defining capitalism as the ownership or control of land or by creating economic policies that reward land owners and encourage individual land ownership. Policies that would encourage the individual ownership and holding of land will inevitably prevent the use of much land that could otherwise have been productively employed.