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ability, will and opportunity to illustrate science in practice. It 

 is said we have men of science enough, but they are men of 

 science only. They can tell us what to do, but do not do it them- 

 selves. Such men are beginning- to see that to make agricultural 

 labor successful, intellectual and manual labor must be combined. 

 The great trouble has been that the theory has been in one man's 

 head, the practice in another man's hands. Now combine these two 

 in one person and you elevate both. Intelligent labor will create 

 a revolution in agriculture. We look with much hope to the 

 Agricultural College to see this accomplished. The young men 

 there are obtaining the rudiments, the first principles of science, 

 while they are at the same time practicing in manual labor ; 

 learning to use their hands as well as the head ; combining intel- 

 lectual with physical effort ; disciplining body and mind — not to 

 the injury of either, but to the benefit of both. A reasonable 

 amount of manual labor is both compatible with, and necessary to 

 the growth of mind. Experience has shown that active physical 

 labor imparts vigor to the system, and that bodily vigor imparts 

 activity to the brain. In fact, no education is complete that does 

 not develop the body in connection with the mind. One or the 

 other or both will otherwise be dwarfed. This is the way in 

 which every child should be educated. On this principle we may 

 account for the fact that boys in the country with very much less 

 schooling will compare favorably in intellectual knowledge at 

 sixteen), with city boys. The active labors of the farm have im- 

 parted vigor to the brain so that they are able to learn from books 

 and teachers in less time than those do that have not this active 

 labor. And it is on this same principle that we account for the 

 fact that the men who spent their early days in active labor on the 

 farm in connection with mental discipline in the country school- 

 house, are among our most active and successful business men of 

 the cities — who fill the professions with so much credit — and are 

 among our most eminent legislators and statesmen. 



Now what an argument is this in favor of agricultural labor. 

 With such examples and facts as these before her, what mother 

 would not prefer that son or daughter should have their lot upon 

 the farm rather than in the city ? be trained in early life to 

 habits of industry and application, rather than be left to idleness 

 and the temptations of city life 1 Mothers have a mighty influence 

 in moulding the characters and shaping the destinies of their sons 

 and daughters. One unguarded complaint about the drudgery 6 



