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tiou — there can be no opposition between these. Agriculture, the me- 

 chanic arts, manufactures and commerce, have all one common interest. 

 They call each other into being. One cannot exist without the others. 

 The mutually sustain and give prosperitj^ to each other. Thej occupy 

 different departments, indeed, but they together make up the great cir- 

 cle of industry. Without agriculture, civilized man cannot subsist. 

 But without the mechanic arts, agriculture is without implements. 

 Without manufactures all are destitute of fabrics of utihty, convenience 

 and elegance. But manufactures must rest upon agriculture and the 

 mechanic arts. Without all the former, there can be no commerce. 

 But without commerce there would be no exchange of commodities, 

 and hence no division of labor, no mutual sustentation, and no wealth. 

 Each solitary man would be himself an agriculturist, a mechanic, a 

 manufacturer, to meet rudely and imperfectly his own individual wants. 

 Without commerce there would be no improvement — no advance inhu- 

 man society. These are truths palpable to every one. Then let us be 

 penetrated by the sentiment of this mutual dependence — ^let us act it 

 out nobly and generously. Let no one be tempted by a present or par- 

 tial advantage, to set one form of industry in opposition to another ; to 

 endeavor to make one succumb to another. Sooner or later the shock 

 of such disloyalty will be felt in the whole circle of industry, and that 

 part which at the first strengthened and enriched itself at the expense 

 of the others, will sink under a common weakness and poverty. ye 

 sister aits of industry, ever embrace each other like the hours dancing 

 about the chariot of the morning, that ye may alike move in a path of 

 hght and scatter flowers upon the earth ! 



And in connection with this mutual dependence of the arts ofindus- 

 tiy, should there be cultivated the sentiment of the mutual dependence 

 of the different countries of the earth, and of the different places of the 

 same country — the sentiment, I would call it, of the brotherhood of 

 man. The Great and Good Being who has made the different cUmates 

 of the world, and who has shaped the various aspects of the earth's 

 surface into mountains and plains, and who has constituted all the va- 

 rieties of soils, giving to each its natural products, and lodged mines 

 here and there, and made thus a vast variety of capabilities, has taught 

 us in all this that there are different kinds of work to be performed in 

 different countries and places besides the work common to all, and that 



