64 Agriculture and Its Needs 



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ther men nor institutions can be made over 

 in a minute, after they are fifty years of 

 age. The old order is the persistent ex- 

 pression of social, political, and educational 

 aristocracy. The new order is the advance 

 agent of educational and industrial democ- 

 racy. The new order is as sure to persist as 

 the Republic is to endure, for it is only the 

 logical outworking of the democracy of the 

 nation. It is sure to go in every state, for 

 the nation will never endure half slave and 

 half free educationally, any more than 

 politically. 



In New York we are as yet in the old 

 order. We are not quite so hide-bound as 

 some who live in the still more educationally 

 effete East. Some men and some facts 

 have helped us. But we are a long way 

 from being out in the clear sunlight. We 

 almost lost the advantage of the Federal 

 grants to higher learning for the masses 



