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places be easily procured by enclosing waste lands, 

 by purchase, exchange, or long lease. No more 

 beneficial means of improving the health and morals 

 of townspeople can be thought of than this. All 

 encouragement should likewise be given to the study 

 of music, the establishment of the botanic garden, 

 the museum of natural history, the procuring a 

 gallery of arts, an agricultural museum, as also 

 to the promotion of annual, half-yearly, or more 

 frequent flower shows, cattle shows, horticultural 

 fetes, and exhibitions of farm produce, implements, 

 and various other productions ; and prizes should 

 be awarded to successful competitors. A savings- 

 bank was part of the plan of the Manchester 

 Mechanics' Institution ; but though it failed of 

 success and was discontinued, I cannot but think 

 that the idea is a good one, and might be most 

 advantageously carried out throughout the country 

 at large. For all these purposes land should be 

 provided, and endowments invited by deed of gift 

 or bequest." 



He held firmly that the study of the arts and 

 sciences should promote morality and religion, that 

 the general tone of the mind would be improved 

 by such studies and rendered more susceptible of 

 higher impressions. " There is nothing," he said, 

 "in being a better artist or a better mathematician 

 to hinder the student from being a better member 

 of society, a better man, and a better Christian. I 

 would have every Government scheme so ordered 

 that no handle be given to any mere party to gain 



