COLLEGE AND STATE 



country life until the government of the 

 open country is founded on fact, evidence, 

 and reason, and is propagated with the 

 vigor and confidence of men and women 

 who have arrived at some degree of mas- 

 tery of their conditions. 



It is the research and educational insti- 

 tutions devoted to agriculture that are 

 bringing this new time to pass. They are 

 setting forth new ways of attacking the 

 countryman's problems, the direct way 

 of first determining causes and then work- 

 ing out a line of action. This will con- 

 tribute directly to self-government in all 

 the localities because it encourages self- 

 action. The ordinary political means of 

 encouraging self-government are second- 

 ary and often only factitious and tempo- 

 rary. A college of agriculture is not merely 

 an institution of learning, in the old mean- 

 ing ; it must have within it such a sense of 

 service, such a range of subjects, and such 

 an integrity of organization as will enable 

 it to attack all distinctly rural questions 

 and to bring a united policy to bear on the 

 whole problem of rural civilization. 

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