306 THE LURE OF THE LAND 



less infancy. She is the mother who instructs them in 

 knowledge and morality, and finally she is the mother 

 who looks upon their successes with loving pride. 



With such influences working on our industries and 

 arts, the future seems bright with near possibilities. 

 We see our industries vivified with new life and new 

 usefulness. We see them liberalized and educated. 

 We see them permeated with love of truth and moral- 

 ity. We see them feeding hundreds of millions of peo- 

 ple at home, and covering the seas with their products. 

 We see homes made happier and life made easier to the 

 millions of toilers. Labor is no longer a mere drudg- 

 ery, but a constant pleasure. Knowledge and industry 

 will march hand in hand to higher usefulness and 

 higher attainment, and in these happy results we will 

 see realized in all the intimacy of their kinship, the 

 " true relation of science to the industries and arts." 



