514 THE GROUNDSWELL. 



until properly applied ; and we have not the means of a} A 

 ing it. What sort of generals and soldiers would all our 

 national science (and art) make, if we had no military acad 

 emies to take that knowledge and apply it directly , and. 

 specifically to military life ? 



Are our classic universities, our law, medicine, and divin 

 ity schools, adapted to make good generals and warriors? 

 Just as well as they are to make farmers and mechanics, 

 and no better. Is the defense, then, of our resources of 

 more actual consequence than their production ? Why, 

 then, should the State care for the one and neglect the 

 other ? 



It was shown that only one in two hundred and sixty of 

 the population of the State were, in 1853, engaged in pro 

 fessional life, and not one in two hundred in the Union, 

 generally ; and that a great proportion, even of these, never 

 enjoyed the advantages of classical and professional schools. 

 Further, there were, in the United States, two hundred and 

 twenty-five principal universities, colleges, and seminaries, 

 schools, etc., devoted to the interest of the professional 

 classes, besides many smaller ones, while there was not a 

 single one, with liberal endowments, designed for the lib 

 eral, and practical education of the industrial classes. 



It said : &quot;No West Point, as yet, beams upon the horizon 

 of hope ; true, as yet, our boundless resources keep us, like 

 the children of Japhet emigrating from the Ark, from the 

 miserable degradation and want of older empires; but the 

 resources themselves lie all undeveloped in some directions, 

 wasted and misapplied in others, and rapidly vanishing 

 away as centuries roll onward, under the unskillfulness that 

 directs them. We, the members of the industrial classes, are 

 still compelled to work empirically and blindly, without 

 needful books, schools, or means, by the slow process of that 

 individual experience that lives and dies with the man. 

 Our professional brethren, through their universities, schools,, 



