NORTH AROOSTOOK .SOCIETY. 171 



one brief year was vocal with the assembled wit and wisdom of the 

 editorial fraternity of our State, who departed to tell in story and 

 song of the glories and beauties of this garden of Maine ; and, sur- 

 rounded as we have been by your flocks and herds, your various 

 and varied specimens of agricultural industry and manufacturing 

 skill, and above all, having for auditors this numerous and intelli- 

 gent gathering, dull indeed must be the mind, obtuse the intellect, 

 that cannot say something, although it may not be what you may 

 desire. 



It was the conceit of a clever poet, that 



" Man wants but little here below. 

 Nor wants that little long." 



There is unquestionably less of poetry, but a great deal more of 

 fact, in my idea that 



Man wants a great deal here below. 



Man was made by an infinitely wise Creator — the creature of 

 want, and of constantly recurring wants. Give us day by day our 

 daily bread, implies that we have daily wants which need to be 

 supplied. 



I purpose then, to speak briefly of some of these wants, and of 

 the means you have here of supplying them. 



As I have already said, we have wants which need to be sup- 

 plied, and unless supplied, we fail to realize the purpose and object 

 of our existence. 



These wants are physical, intellectual and moral or spiritual ; all 

 of which must be supplied, and constantly supplied, or man is not 

 what it is his privilege to be, what it his duty to be. 



And first — we should have a healthy parentage. There are 

 a great many of us that were born wrong ; that is, we had a 

 parentage which was wrong — parents physically or morally dis- 

 eased, or both, and the iniquities of the father are by an irreversible 

 law of nature visited upon the chil'dren of the third and fourth 

 generation. I do not offer this as a theological dogma, but as a 

 truth of natural science, to which it would be well for the world to 

 give heed. I do not expect that any of us at this late day will be 

 able to improve our own nativity ; that is a matter over which we 

 have no particular control ; but the generations yet to come, will 

 hold us to a strict responsibility for a healthy, physical, intellectual 

 and moral organization. 



Second. — A man ought to be well "brought up." Some per- 

 sons, of words polite and classical, would say "educated^' — but 



