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" Deepen and widen the toundation of your seminaries and schools of learning. 

 Encourage genius as well as industry. Invito hither, and hold here, the pro- 

 found thinkers, the patient students of nature, those tireless watchers who wait 

 upon the stars, or weigh the dust upon an insect's wing. Discard and discourage 

 alike the prejudices of ignorance and the conceits of learning. Remember that 

 even to-day there is no man so wise that he tinderstands the law which regulates 

 the relation of any fertilizer to any crop ; that few have observed the mystery 

 of that wonderful inOuence of the first impregnation of the dam upon the future 

 offspring of whatever sire ; that the origin and contagion ( f the cattle disease, or 

 pleuro-pneumonia, remain hitherto without adequate scientific exploration ; that 

 the practical I'armers and men of science, all combined, understand as little the 

 destructive potato rot, which concerns the economy of every farm and every 

 household, as the aborigines who first descried the Mayflower understood of the 

 poems of Homer or the philosophy of Aristotle. Not undervaluing the past 

 achievements of science, remember how infinite the extent and variety of the con- 

 quests which yet remain to her." 



How little, indeed, docs agriculture yet know ! How little cf the lile-giviug 

 pollen ! let there is nothing in nature that forbids man to attain such knowl- 

 edge of its action that, by means of it, he can originate such varieties as his 

 imagination may conceive within the limits of the character of the genus. 



"Happy the man who doth the causes know 

 Of all that is." 



But it is not in their occupation only that the progress of the industrial classes 

 is to be viewed. They hav(; relations to society and to the State. And, 

 alluding to these, the Governor thus speaks to the industrial classes of New 

 England : 



" Obedient to (jrder and practicing industry, as well as loving individual free- 

 dom, the people of New England have acquired at last an instinct which dis- 

 criminates between license and liberty, between the passions of the hour and 

 the solemn adjudications of law. They possess the traditions of liberty, they 

 inherit ideas of government, they bear about in their blood and in their bones 

 the unconscious tendencies of race, which rise almost to the dignity of recollec- 

 tions, and which are more emphatic and more permanent than opinions. By the 

 toil of more than seven generations they have acquired and hold in free tenure 

 their titles and their possessions. The dignity of the freehold, the sacredness of 

 the family, the solemnity of religious obligation, the importance of developing 

 the intellect by education, the rightful authority of government, the rightfulness 

 of property earned or inherited, as flowing from inalienable self-ownership of man 

 and the rights of human nature, the freedom of worship, t'.ie idea of human duty, 

 fxpanded and enforced by the consciousness of an immortal destiny, are alike 

 deeply imbedded in the traditions and convictions of the i.mmense and controlling 

 majority of oiu- people." 



"If there is aught which men deem radicalism, or fear as dangerous specula- 

 tion in our theology or our politics, I call mankind to bear witness that there 

 is no child so humble that he may not be taught in all the learning of the 

 schools, no citizen so poor that he may not aspire to any of the rewards of merit 

 or honorable exertion, not one so weak as to fall below the equal protection of 

 equal laws, nor one so lofty as to challenge their restraints; no church or 

 bishop able to impose creed or ritual on the unconvinced conscience; no peace- 

 ful, pious worship, which is unprotected by the state. Thus liberty stands, and 

 the law supports liberty; popular education lends intelligence to law, and gives 

 order to lihvrfii, while religion, unfettered by human arbitration between the 



