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ing result, if we exarayie the tables with care, we shall find that 

 less than one-fourth part can be set apart as belonging to the 

 department of agriculture. All the great residue is distributed 

 over tlie wide range of diversified industry which belongs to 

 manufactures, the mechanic and useful arts. How much of 

 mystery or of instruction is borne in this view of the subject, 

 you shall judge, when 1 summon before you the State returns 

 of 1855, which exhibit tlie entire agriculture of the county as 

 $9,260,000, and at tlie same time call before you the census of 

 the United States for 1860, which reveals a product of boots 

 and shoes in the same county of 89,500,000. I might present 

 other illustrations derived from an hundred specified forms and 

 classifications of our labor. So fully has Worcester partaken of 

 tlie spirit of Massachusetts enterprise which reflects the decrees 

 of Providence and the resolution of a sturdy people, blending 

 in the promise tliat whatever the brain, and nerve, and muscle, 

 of free, intelligent labor can accomplish, — whatever taste, and 

 art, and skill can impart, — whatever all the high qualities of 

 man or the finer perceptions of woman can add, — all shall be 

 contributed, as all have been contributed, to make this little 

 Commonwealth to those who have their abode in it, the happiest 

 home in all the earth. 



I return now to the fact, already perhaps sufficiently illus- 

 trated by the bare mention of our published returns, that our 

 State is a scene of diversified and classified industry. Agriculture 

 is indeed a large interest, — the primal and essential interest, 

 without which there were no life to any other ; — but, after all, 

 in our political economy it is but one interest in many. All 

 these pursuits are part and parcel of a common welfare and a 

 common destiny. All together they constitute the charmed 

 circle from which no segment can be spared without disturbance 

 and detriment to tlie whole. And as a part and a consequence 

 of this complex yet simple social condition, agriculture both iu 

 Europe and New England has been steadily enlarging the 

 sphere of its powers. As English and American publicists 

 have been compelled to admit, the recent development of the 

 earth's culture may be traced to the quickening influences 

 which the use of machinery and the methodical division of 

 labor have exerted upon the population, the industry, and the 

 consumption of nations. In the Natural History of Lord Bacon, 



