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pass on upward until he has fitted himself to do the work which 

 God designed he should do, but I also desire that between us 

 here and those in other countries who are endeavoring to inves- 

 tigate these abstruse and difficult questions, there should also be 

 fraternity of feeling. We should establish this fraternity at 

 once. We have not established it as yet, in that branch of busi- 

 ness which we have adopted as a profession, and which has 

 occupied as much thought as any profession in the world. We 

 have all read the valuable works on farming which are prepared 

 by our own thinkers and writers ; but what I said this morning 

 is especially true — we have it in our power, through the instru- 

 mentality of this Agricultural College, to elevate the standard 

 of our agricultural literature, until it shall range alongside of 

 that foreign literature which appears in the transactions of 

 foreign agricultural societies, and which constitutes a part of the 

 scientific knowledge of the world. We can do it ; we ought to 

 do it. If we will but faithfully apply ourselves to the work 01 

 guiding this college, wherever it may be located, in the right 

 way, we may establish a telegraphic wire between Massachusetts 

 and the best chemists, the best savans, the best scientific men, in 

 England, France and Germany, which will be worth all the 

 wires which will ever be laid beneath the waves of the Atlantic 

 Ocean. It will put us into immediate and active communication 

 with those men, and will open the door for every farmer's boy, 

 if he will but avail himself of the liberty to pass on through 

 the primary portions of his study up to those heights which are 

 not reached by more than one Liebig, perhaps, in a generation, 

 but which he should ever strive to attain. We have been told 

 that there are thirty colleges in Germany, and only one professor 

 like Liebig. Heaven knows how many colleges there arc in the 

 United States, but there is but one Agassiz, (applause,) and we 

 did not raise him ourselves. (Laughter.) Let me tell you, 

 gentlemen, the only way for Massachusetts to make a Liebig or 

 an Agassiz is for her to go to work now, and keep at work until 

 she has accomplished the object. It may not crop out in the 

 medical profession, where we have so abundant means of teach- 

 ing ; and yet we have Warren, and Jackson, and Holmes ; we 

 have nearly reached the acme. It may not crop out in law ; 

 but we have got pretty near it ; Shaw, Story, Choate — we need 

 not tremble before other States or nations. It may not crop out 



