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over her inter-squabbling and mutually intolerant 

 children, they wonder she interferes so seldom, and 

 with such mild half-measures to rescue her belea- 

 guered sons, if not from the foes in front, at least 

 from the fools behind that go bleating about, exagger- 

 ating every fact like street-news-mongers ; dressed 

 in the livery of science like a monkey in regi- 

 mentals, and understanding and appreciating the 

 language they talk at second-hand, as much as the 

 organ-grinder does the opera-tune that his winch 

 works threadbare. 



A good, solid, impenetrable advocate of old-fash- 

 ioned ignorance, falling foul of one of these light 

 gentry, snaps him up at a mouthful; and no harm 

 done neither: but the mischief lies in the corol- 

 lary "So much for your Science/"* 



Agriculture has had enough of this, and some- 

 thing to spare. Counterfeits of every sort and 

 shape have crowded at the heels of every improve- 

 ment, every invention, every good suggestion, every 

 new manure ; till art and Science are well-nigh 

 ashamed of the sound of their own names, and are 



* Thousands of inquiring, liberal-hearted young men, have 

 been driven from the paternal farm by the stupid voice of 

 ridicule brutishly leveled at their attempts at knowledge in 

 what should have been their legitimate calling, and in which, 



