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industrial pursuits of life as to bear the full fruition of the 

 education so bestowed ; and this was his doctrine at a time 

 when agricultural education was classed as among the ab 

 surdities. On this subject Mr. Douglas was in full accord 

 with him, and early declared : &quot; This educational scheme of 

 his is the most democratic scheme of education ever pro 

 posed to the mind of man.&quot; Later, the leading press of 

 England expressed the opinion that, if fully carried out, it 

 would revolutionize the world. 



It is a grievous spectacle to see so much of the magnifi 

 cent endowments allotted to the agricultural colleges frit 

 tered away in the old time-worn collegiate courses, abso 

 lutely stolen by scholiasts who have no sympathy in common 

 with the industrial masses, and who merely provide food 

 and material for the drones of society. 



&quot;Where,&quot; says Professor Turner, in one of his pamphlets, 

 with characteristic directness and force, &quot; where did Socrates 

 and Cincinnatus, and Washington, and Franklin, and Sher 

 man, and Kossuth, and Downing, and Hugh Miller, and a 

 host of worthies too numerous to mention, get their education 

 except from their connection with the practical pursuits of 

 life ? Where all other men have gotten theirs, so far as it 

 has proved itself of any practical use to themselves or the 

 world. If all our divines had been trained at West Point, all 

 our lawyers, physicians, and generals at Andover or Princeton, 

 would there have been either the same energy of effort and 

 success, or the same discipline of mind in these professions? 

 Skill and a proper knowledge of projectiles the chain-shot 

 and the bomb-shell would hardly make a divine ; nor famil 

 iarity with the folios of the Fathers have achieved the con 

 quest of the empire of the Montezumas. 



&quot;So far as discipline of mind is concerned, the greater part 

 of it is procured, in all professions, not at their several 



