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just as necessary a work as is accomplished by. Teachers' Institutes for 

 the public schools. It proposes to furnish the facilities for all needful 

 experiments; to be the "station" where tests can be made of whatever 

 claims attention; the repository and exponent of our progressive knowl- 

 edge. It will have a complete collection of models in machinery, of 

 seeds and woods and textile materials; its gardens and orchards, formed 

 for instruction and not profit, will become a museum of pomology and 

 horticulture, so classified and arranged that it may be examined and 

 read by all. It will be the volume wherein the good and perfect gifts 

 of a beneficent Creator to this land and people have each their appro- 

 priate pages, and every letter a type of beauty which has more than a 

 material significance. Our climate makes the naturalization of every 

 product useful to man practicable, at least for purposes of instruction 

 and experiment. And the history of fruit and grain growing makes us 

 modest in saying what man may not do under these favoring conditions 

 of climate and soil. 



I have spoken,thus fully and plainly of what the University hopes to 

 accomplish, because the realization of these hopes depends upon the 

 people. It is a sacred and inalienable trust bequeathed to the poople 

 for their own benefit and that of future generations. They have an 

 unquestioned right to demand that it shall primarily be adapted to pop- 

 ular needs, that its course of instruction shall be arranged to meet, as 

 fully as possible, the wants of the greatest number of our citizens. The 

 farmers, mechanics, miners, and teachers of California have a right to 

 ask that this bequest shall aid them in securing such educational advan- 

 tages as shall fit them for their pursuits in life, and which, by an infu- 

 sion of intelligence and power, shall elevate these pursuits to a social 

 dignity commensurate with their value. 



The University will be all that I have promised and more, if the 

 people to whom »it belongs, through their representatives, cherish and 

 sustain it. Our schools are the highwater mark of our civilization — 

 this school will be the highwater mark of your estimation of the value 

 of industrial education. 



If the people determine that their children shall first be put in pos- 

 session of all their faculties, because they need the full power of man- 

 hood and womanhood as much in one pursuit as in another, it will be 

 done. If the people see that the school is the only place where the 

 foreign elements which make up our political body can be digested, 

 assimilated, and Americanized, they will see the necessity for the largest 

 and most generous provision for every department of public education. 



Europe has been pouring a flood of immigration upon us from her 

 poorer classes, compensating herself with the flower of our youth, to 

 whom she offers superior advantages of education, with our scholars and 

 capitalists, to whom she offers the accumulated gains of centuries of cul- 

 ture, where money has not been the only object of pursuit, and where 

 men are content with slower and more moderate fortunes. 



It is not extravagant to place agriculture at .the head of industrial 

 callings; it holds this place in the oldest scriptures, the oldest literature, 

 and mythology. And such it is destined to become more and more as 

 science introduces new variations into the songs of labor, and as educa- 

 tion lifts the desires and aspirations of men out of materialism towards 

 the gratification of higher wants. 



