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fession, their etfoits are equally as productive of hunian happiness as 

 any other department of labor among men. 



Even those studies which seem most remote from anything practical, 

 are often productive of grand and beneficial results. Look at yonder 

 astronomer, peering through his long telescope into the clear evening 

 eky. He gazes for a few moments, withdraws his eye, makes a note 

 upon a paper by his side, and then turning to another part of the hea- 

 vens, repeats a similar operation. Surely, you will say, this is mere 

 star-gazing ; he might as well be forming fanciful figures in the cloud£. 

 He may be pleasantly indulging hLs imagination, but can do no practi- 

 cal good. But be not too hasty in your conclusions. That same star- 

 gazing of his, will do the world more practical good than he could ac- 

 complish in cultivating the soil for a thousand years, should he hve so 

 long. He is a co-laborer witli you in ministering to human wants. 

 That star-gazer is cheapening the price of food and clothing; enabling 

 you to obtain with less labor a greater amount of the comforts of life. 

 He has been observing the motion of the moon with reference to cer- 

 tain fixed stars; he has been watching the motions of Jupiter's Sattel- 

 Mtes, discovering and preparing to demonstrate a rule which shall enable 

 your navigator to determine his longitude ; converting the celestial lu- 

 minaries into so many beacons, to guide him across the ti-ackless wa- 

 ters, and to know his precise locality upon the great deep, thereby ad- 

 ding to the safety and speed of navigation, diminishing the cost of 

 transportation, lessening the price of foreign productions to you, and 

 creating a greater demand, and giving you a higher price for yours, iti 

 return. 



I have already said that perfect health of body and mind, requires 

 a proper, and I may also add, a proportionate degree of the exercise 

 of both. And though we enjoy the benefit of the experience which 

 has been accumulated in the past — though great advances have been 

 made in the arts of production, and even the poor in this age, and es- 

 pecially in this country, are in the daily enjoyment of many of the 

 comforts and conveniences of life, which among the most enlightened 

 nations of antiquity, were absolutely unattainable by the rich and 

 powerful — yet up to this time, and even in this favored land, the mass- 

 es of onr population are yet compelled to devote more of their time 

 and faculties to physical labor, than is consistent with a due and pjo 



