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blunder, what diversity of apparent "accident" 

 or mischance, what damage of unlooked-for incident, 

 and unallowed-for circumstance! What open path- 

 less wastes for the blunderer and the empiric, what 

 narrow and difficult steeps for the student who has 

 the heart to climb! 



Oh Agriculture ! thou science of sciences without 

 a School, thou Philosophy without a " Porch," (even 

 for shelter ! ) thou University of unexamined gradu- 

 ates ; all "Masters," and no "Students" when will 

 thy "degrees" be better recognized, thy principles 

 more truly studied, thy "privileges" be better 

 appreciated, for being the better understood. When 

 will men consent condescend to LEARN an 

 Art that claims a share of light, and illustration, 

 and practical advancement, from every physical 

 science that has sprung into being, since Bacon 

 traced out knowledge to its source, and Chemistry, 



THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATTER, gave the best of pOSthu- 



mous illustration to that great inductive theory 

 that rests all knowledge on the one sole basis of 

 Experiment.* 



* And yet, " Schools of Agriculture " are looked upon by 

 our sapient " farmer " legislators as the Utopian theories of 

 visionary men, and unworthy the patronage of the State 

 Governments ! ED. 



