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"When the simple mechanical idea of pulveration, 

 comminution, subdivision, or by whatever other long 

 name men may please to understand it, shall be 

 seen in its chemical meaning, as connected with the 

 food of plants, the "pasture of roots," as Jethro 

 Tail, with appropriate metaphor, described it then 

 the claim and application of the Steam-engine will 

 be made out and recognized, and the name of James 

 "Watt will be found as important to agriculture as 

 that of Humphrey Davy. 



It is a mere question of time. "We travel slowly : 

 and like lazy wheelers, throw back our ears and 

 bite the pulling horse ; but if ever the shadow of a 

 coming event was visible beforehand, even to the 

 unimaginative eye, this of the true, mechanism of 

 Cultivation is one that is beginning to be visible. 

 Call the Seer " visionary," if you please. Yisionary ! 

 of course he is visionary ! it is his place and office, 

 his duty and profession to be so, and bear the con- 

 sequence ! He sees in " vision ; " it is by far-sighted 

 vision that he catches sight of the " man's hand " 



hook, and the nations of the earth learn war no more, as we 

 devoutly trust, in the Providence of God, that time may 

 come, the teeming millions that then inhabit the earth will 

 marvel at the rudeness of the "ancients," as we shall then be 

 considered, in their modes of cultivation. 

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