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Some writer remarks, that whoever makes two 
ears of corn, or two blades of grafs, to grow upon a 
fpot of ground where only one grew before, deferves 
better of mankind, and does more effential fervice 
to his country, than the whole race of politicians 
put together. 
While every confiderate mind muft deprecate’ that 
dereliction of human reafon, which aflociates fo large 
a portion of rational beings, in the ftudy of the 
inftruments of deftruétion, yours is the gratifying, 
the fuperior employment of turning the fword into a 
plonghfhare, and the pike into a pruning-knife. 
It is your’s not to exult over flaughtered millions— 
but to pour the oil of gladnefs into the bofoms of 
thofe lefs favoured with the comforts of life, making 
the earth yield more abundantly to their neceflities, 
(the moft innocent and laudable of all purfuits) and 
thereby rendering their condition more confonant 
with the dignity of human nature. 
From what fatality, or from what circumftances 
it happens, that many of the moft ufeful fciences are, 
as it were, reje&ted from publick feminaries of edu- 
cation, while the moft frivolous and ufelefs ones 
are adopted, I am at a lofs to fay; and why we are 
forbidden to inveftigate truth, but expected to ad- 
here to a fet of eftablifhed dogmas, may be de- 
plored when, perhaps, the feafon of improvement 
is gone by, and fociety left to pour an unavailing 
tear over a fy{tem of tuition fo weak and injurious. 
Agricultural 
