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the immensity of their products, the variety and perfection 

 of their processes and arts, the increase of their moral and 

 mental power, so great already that we can hardly fence 

 politicians out of our show-grounds, although we offer no 

 premium for the stock or breed. Then think that all this 

 has been achieve 1 by a class of men who centuries ago were 

 the mere serfs of the soil ; bought and sold with the cattle ; 

 tortured, or hung, or burnt at the base bidding of some 

 haughty lord.&quot; 



CHAMPIONSHIP OF LIBERAL EDUCATION TO THE 

 INDUSTRIES. 



In a preceding chapter we have traced Professor Turner s 

 hand in the development of a system of education to the 

 industries. It will not be out of place here to show still 

 more fully his sentiments relating to this education, the one 

 dear subject next his heart. He saw the bill whose history 

 we have given elsewhere, now up, now down, tossed from one 

 house of Congress to another as a foot-ball, until at last it 

 was vetoed by a vacillating and recreant president. 



While Senator Douglas lay dying in Chicago, Professor 

 Turner, entirely ignorant of the fact was busy at his own 

 desk, in Jacksonville, Illinois, writing and preparing manu 

 script, at the Senator s request, relating to a new bill which 

 Mr. Douglas proposed to press forward at the next Con 

 gress with all the zeal and power for which this eminent 

 statesman was noted. Alas ! too soon the word came that 

 this giant intellect had passed away just when the nation 

 most needed its staunch support. 



Professor Turner always held, as he does now, that the 

 mind can be so disciplined in the several professions and 



