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prove, and often do prove, of great benefit; yet it is a 

 great mistake to confound these with science itself 

 i.e., as already said, the " knowledge of matter and its 

 laws." 



Science, therefore, educates and liberalizes every 

 trade and industry and art. Its cultivation will 

 broaden the views of the people, dispel prejudice and 

 superstition, remove feelings of narrow sectional pride, 

 and make the whole world akin. When science is more 

 broadly diffused, when it permeates more thoroughly 

 the industries of the country, then there will be an end 

 of humbugs and crazes, of isms and oddities, and the 

 reign of common sense will supersede the reign of im- 

 pulse and ignorance. 



UNIVERSAL TRAINING NOT POSSIBLE. 



I understand perfectly well, as already mentioned, 

 that it is quite impossible that every artisan should re- 

 ceive a complete scientific schooling. However desir- 

 able such a thing may be, it is too Utopian to be con- 

 sidered here. Every farmer of the future will not be 

 a graduate of an agricultural college, no matter if they 

 may be made as numerous as high schools. But every 

 farmer may feel the liberalizing power of scientific 

 knowledge, and doubtless will feel it, although he may 

 be unc'onscious of it. He cannot shut his eyes to the 

 light which is abroad in the land. The lowliest slave 

 will feel the warmth of the sun's rays, though he may 

 not know that the sun's atmosphere contains sodium 

 vapor. And thus it is with all kinds of scientific knowl- 

 edge. Science will warm and vivify the whole world, 

 though many may remain unconscious of the source of 

 the new life which springs up within them. 



No one can calculate the ponderous power for good 



