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come out among us from their labonitories, bringing to our 

 aid, as hand workers, the facts which they and others hke 

 them, by botli brain work and hand work, have brought to 

 light and applied to practical uses on the farm. Let us 

 honor such men in every possible way, and, by so honoring 

 them, offer the highest encouragement that working men can 

 offer to those who, with self interest and class feeling draw- 

 ing them the other way, have the nobility and patriotism 

 thus to aid the developments of the national resources, and 

 to add to the individual happiness of every one of the vast 

 multitude wlio, by such help, may rise from the ignoble and 

 unhappy state of delvers and drudges, hewers of wood and 

 drawers of water, to the full stature of intelligent, cultivated 

 and trained working men. 



Perhaps we may hope to draw help also, in time, from the 

 theologians, particularly since that noblest of Ciiri^tian phy- 

 sicians flud missionaries, Eobert Livingstone, has taught 

 them that the true way to spread our religion among the 

 heathen is first to teach them the industrial arts. May we 

 not, indeed, hope that they who claim to be the exponents 

 of the faith of that c arpenter's Son, whom the common 

 people followed so gladly, may themselves take up the cause 

 of the common people to-day, and, by aiding in their eleva- 

 tion, entitle themselves to the reward of those who give 

 cool water to the thirsty ? 



As for the classicists, the logicians, rhetoricians, mathema- 

 ticians, politicians and magicians, — I mean those who know 

 the black art of coining the sweat and blood of the people 

 into millions for their own coffers, — we may always count 

 upon their fiercest hate and hostility. Their coveted dis- 



