cimotflCLES OF A CLAY FARM. 



eye of the mind through that of outward vision, 

 without the need of types and words. "It is not 

 Speech nor Language, yet their voices are heard." 

 And shame upon the parent and the country that 

 allows her sons to be banished, at the tender age of 

 childhood, from the school of early instruction to 

 the labors of the fiold, before the mind has received 

 that gentle care and training which enlivens, ex- 

 plains, and even dignifies the lowest toil, if toil can 

 ever be really low, as only Ignorance imagines. The 

 old Chronicler, amid his own early blunders and ex- 

 travagance, has yet had no occasion to correct the 

 first impression with which he looked upon a child 

 turned into a scarecrow for the new-sown field, a 

 boy "driving plow" the livelong day, and a man (a 

 MIND !) threshing in a barn ! without one hour for 

 the instruction and development of that higher 

 part which separates his mind from the Brutes, his 

 body from Machinery! 



Talk of "Agricultural Improvements," of the 

 difficulty of getting the laborers to take to a new 

 implement, or adopt an improved Method ! "What 

 enables you to see its advantage and adopt it? 

 Your mind. What cultivates your farm better than 

 your neighbor's? Your mind. If that alone be left 

 ancultivated around you, at every point, at every 



