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same time develop a faculty of corresponding power to derive pleasure 

 from the separate possession of any mental, moral or material good. 

 He cannot appropriate another's gold without guilt, nor his virtues by 

 any means. He attaches to any appliances that may contribute to his 

 welfare, a Nalue, and when he obtains possession of such auxiliaries, he 

 would as assiduously exclude all others from their enjoyment, except by 

 his consent, as he diligently labored to acquire them. And this lauda- 

 ble self-love is that which dictates a discharge of individual obligations 

 as a virtue that brings its sure reward — that dictates the assumption of 

 personal rights for the benefits that accrue from their enjoyment ; that 

 separates the good man by his voluntary act, from the bad ; that raises 

 the intellectual man by the buoyancy of his genius, above the dolt ; 

 that divides the successful business man, by the laws of demand and 

 supply, from the beggar. The same self-respect would dictate self- 

 preservation, which the adage says is the first law of nature. It should 

 teach every person to so exercise himself that he can longest enjoy life 

 and its blessinors. To do this a man ought not to make himself a mere 

 working machine, only using his intellect to start and stop this piece of 

 mechanism. But he ought to give equal attention to bringing out his 

 mental and muscular powers. 



What plan so feasible and so rational for this purpose, as that pro- 

 posed by the Legislature in the act to incorporate the Agricultural 

 School ? Whoever is educated by the means and in conformity with 

 the regulations of that act, requiring several hours of actual manual 

 labor every day ; and yet allowing an equal or greater length of time 

 for the improvement of the mind in studying the lore of the books, is 

 sure to be a well educated man — a strong man — vigorous in every 

 sense of the word. Agriculture has had its laborious ^;asi; is having 

 i\& present of improvement; and it will have its triumphant future. 



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