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general improvement of which is due, in a large measure, 

 to the valuable educational help given by the graduates 

 of the two schools ; and finally, the increasing number of 

 Jewish students attending State agricultural institutions 

 in the country, secondary schools and colleges, bring to 

 light ample proof of the correctness of his judgment and 

 his correct appraisal of the requirements and possibilities 

 of Jewish agriculture. 



It also completely disproves the erroneous conclusion 

 of our foes and friends alike that the Jew is too good a 

 tradesman to make a good agriculturist. What is true 

 is the fact that the Jew is too vigorous intellectually and 

 has amassed during his long centuries of exile too large 

 a fund of mental energy to limit himself to work of a 

 physical character only. Agricultural education for the 

 Jewish youth combining mental action and physical equa- 

 tion was the movement shouldered by Professor Sabso- 

 vich, encouraged by the Trustees of the Baron de Hirsch 

 Fund. In this he saw the salvation of his people ; through 

 this he comprehended a Judaism come back to its own 

 and by this he sought to silence its traducers and libelers. 



Will this product of a useful life continue to blossom 

 and bear further and larger fruit so that in due time a 

 good part of our people will live in peace that only nature 

 can provide? Will our practical leaders see the danger 

 that threatens our moral, physical and political status 

 and bend their energies towards the creation of a new 

 social posture for our people so well started by our 

 deceased friend? Will our philanthropists analyze and 

 learn from the past and find out how much calumny there 

 would have been checked, how much suffering prevented 

 and how many lives spared if the bulk of our people had 

 been tillers of the soil instead of children of the Ghetto? 

 Will those who have minds and hearts also have the 



