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present time the brightest intelligences of all the nations had 

 been striving to understand the human mother, and that they 

 had built great hospitals and colleges, and still they don't 

 understand the human mother ; and the bovine mother has 

 just as much mystery in her as the human mother. Is it 

 possible that we shall suppose, with all this study, that the 

 great and mysterious functions of motherhood can be under- 

 stood so easily and flippantly as we have? No. It is time 

 we began to dignify these mysteries, and consider them in 

 an intelligent, serious and reverent spirit. I believe we 

 have already recognized this idea of education, and we 

 have a right to say that the university and the college, 

 instead of being fructified by the common school and the 

 high school, should begin to turn its efforts upon the fruc- 

 tification of the other ways of education. There is no such 

 thing as higher education, because the truth is correla- 

 tive. What we need is wider education. Men gain knowl- 

 edge as they gain land. The man is a fool that buys land 

 and separates it so far that he cannot handle it economically. 

 The man is wise that puts his facts against facts, and keeps 

 spreading out fact related to fact. So the man is wise that 

 buys land next to his home, not land that is too far away to 

 be economically farmed. If he wants more land, buy that 

 next to him. Did you ever hear of a man buying a farm on 

 account of its altitude? No. What we need, my friends, 

 is the idea that there is a wider education ; and this idea of 

 the higher education has prejudiced many common, plain 

 people. They think there is aristocracy in learning, and 

 they think there is arrogance in learning, and there is, be- 

 cause there is many a ninny to-day who has been carried 

 through college, and puts on airs. We don't want arro- 

 gance in learning. We want that man should seek the king- 



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dom of God and His righteousness, and all things shall be 

 added to him ; that a man shall seek true knowledge and 

 truth, and that the truth shall make him free. It is knowl- 

 edge of the truth that makes men free. It is error that en- 

 slaves free men. It is error that is enslaving the farmer 

 to-day. We need intellectuality in agriculture. What is 

 the matter with the farmer to-day? He does not feel a 



