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he will be continually incrcafing that important 

 knowlcvlge which an uninftruftcd mind cannot pof- 

 fibly attain. 



Such an inftitution as is here recommended may 

 pofTibly be of fervice to thofe farmers who have no 

 particular connexion with our Agricultural Socie- 

 ties J whofe fields, however, lying open to the con- 

 tinual view of their neighbours, will be a conftant 

 leilbn to thofe who moft need in(lru6lion, fpeakin^ 

 much more intelligibly to them than accounts of ex- 

 periments dated on paper; againft which they will 

 be frequently ftarting that particular kind of doubt, 

 which I have found to be generally cxprefled in fome 

 feme fuch language as this, // may be/Oi but I dorCt 

 know: — a doubt arifing from a cloud inveloping 

 their minds, which the powers of rcafoning are very 

 ineffe(5lual to difpcl. But they will fometimes learn 

 that leffon from the plants of the field, which they 

 might not chufe to learn from the tongues of i:heir 

 fellow-creatures, becaufe they will not avowedly 

 acknowledge others to be their fuperiors in this art 

 and fcience. ^ 



The advantages of fuch an Academy for the 

 education of Gentlemen's fons, will be no lefs evi- 

 dent with regard to themfelves, their pofterity, and 

 the nation in general. 



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