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" Regard a moment your positive wealtli. Consult its Tvonderful growth'. 

 Remember that you owe all of it to cultivated, i/isfructed, intelligent industry. 

 You have couquered, by first understanding nature. You have studied her 

 mysteries, guessed her secrets, and thus unlocked her treasures. And doubt 

 not that iu the wonderful future about to dawn upon our country, the part you 

 are to enact of beneficence and gloiy, under the inspiration of your generous 

 culture and expanding thought, will transcend all the former achievements of 

 your industry, and will outshine the lustre of your arms." 



In his more recent address to the New England Agi-icuitUfal Society, the 

 Governor thus, m :re in detail, alludes to that labor, for which he justly 

 claims so great a future : 



"The needlewoman, by the domestic hearth, or in the shops where labor 

 associates with capital, aided by the sewing-machines — one of the last, best gifts 

 of mechanical invention to women, if not to men ; the weaver, by the side of her 

 carpet-loom, which seems to think as well as to work, and which almost talks ; 

 the shoemaker, pegging a boot at a blow ; the laborer, who fills his gravel-car by 

 two strokes of a steam-shovel, and upsets it by a turn of his hand; the husband- 

 man, who mows and rakes his hay, and reaps, and threshes, and measures out 

 his golden grain by the agencies of cunning mechanisms, almost without fatigue, 

 are only a few of the thousand illuscrations of how the lumian will and the immor- 

 tal intelligence of the human intellect, bridging over the gulf which lies between 

 the boundaries of matter and mind, are vindicating the divinely-given master- 

 ship of man over all things which God hat!i made on earth. Xay, more than 

 that; for the things invisible and impalpable, existing as hidden forces in the 

 vast abyss of nature — caloric, and steam, and electricity, and magnetism, and 

 light itself; the mysteries of sciences, so wonderful and august that they seem 

 to tread celestial spheres and to sweep the mind bewildered by the contempla- 

 tion, far off beyond the domain of reason — these, all these, tamed and allured to 

 human uses, are familiar spirits, by whose means a thousand daily miracles are 

 wrought without amazement to the beholder, and with little consciousness of 

 our own haw nearly we are brought to the contemplation of the very thoughts 

 of Deity. Those winged horses, harnessed to the plough, the loom, the travel- 

 ling-car, carrying burdens, crushing ores, hammering granite and iron, or weav- 

 ing delicate tissues for ornament or luxury, or flashing intelligence by invisible 

 magic, are daily augmenting in number and power, though they had long since 

 added mechanical forces to the industrial strength equivalent to many millions 

 of men." 



Thus, mind — "cultivated, instructed, intelligent" mind — creates vast forces; 

 and, regarding it simply as an agent in the production of positive wealth, insti- 

 tutions of learning, Avhich develop it, are the most economical investments that a 

 State can make. Examine its influence with the highest natural talent — ^ovcr 

 such men as Watt, Telford, the Stephensous, the Erunels, Fulton, Morse, 

 Ericsson, and others — names immortalized by their connexion Avith the steam- 

 engine, bridges, the locomotive, tunnels, canals and railroads, river, lake, 

 and ocean steam-navigation, and iron-ship construction, the telegraph, and the 

 monitor. 



"Watt, who perfected the steam-engine, was earl 3- sent to a commercial school, 

 studied Latin and the elements of Greek, and mathematics, most diligently ; and, 

 when he was fifteen years old, had read twice, carefully, Gravesands's Elements 

 of Natural Philosophy. He was, too, a reader of poetry, of romances, of the 

 publications of the day, and of almost every new book he could procure. 



"Telford," says Mr. Timbs, "left his autobiography, with an elaborate account 

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