440 State Board of Agkiculture, &g. 



an artist requires not only a free and skillful use of the 

 hand, but it demands thought and a continued exercise of 

 the intellectual faculties. 



The more complicate and difficult the trade oi* the art, 

 the more mental training is requisite to master the work. 

 ' Hence, we see why among the English operatives, ignorant 

 as they are, so very few men rise to the surface and 

 become overseers or superintendents in their manufacturing 

 establishments. 



^ In the United States, where nearly every man engaged 

 in the useful arts has had more or less mental training out- 

 side of his trade, in the common schools, we hnd men like 

 Franklin, Lincoln and Wilson, rising, by their own exer- 

 tions, from the lowest classes of society to the most honored 

 positions in the nation. 



To learn a trade is, by no means, a process by which a 

 man may be educated. Here and there a man, while con- 

 stantly employed in his trade, acquires, by close application 

 to study, mental training and strength of intellect suf- 

 ficient to manage the affairs of a nation. 



Vermont never raised but one cabinet maker who distin- 

 ^guished himself in the Congress of the United States ; Tennes- 

 see never produced but one tailor who graced the Presidential 

 chair ; Massachusetts never adopted but one son who raised 

 himself from the shoemaker's bench to the second office in the 

 gift of the people of the United States. Douglass, John- 

 son and Wilson were men of iron constitutions, endowed 

 with an intense desire for knowledge, and having, more- 

 over, an inflexible will, they bent all their energies, while 

 plying their respective trades, to the acquisition of. 



