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matter, and then go and act. Farmers don't want to spend 

 thirty or forty years to learn what they ought to know at the 

 beginning. 



Mr. Lee responded to the compliment. He spoke of the 

 capabilities of Massachusetts. She could do more and better 

 for the Union than any other state in it, not even excepting 

 New York. There was no need of emigration from Massachu- 

 setts. Keep your boys at home, said he, and not allow them 

 to leave the girls, whom they ought to marry, and live with 

 here. Agriculture will prosper here if taken hold of as it should 

 be. You can raise apples here better than any where else. He 

 spoke of one county in New York from whence $100,000 

 worth of apples were last year sent to Boston for exportation to 

 England. He said that more money could be made here from 

 an acre of good apples, than from anything else that could be 

 raised on the same ground. It would be well to devote a por- 

 tion of every farm exclusively to the raising of apples. They 

 were healthy. They were nutritious for man and beast. He 

 recommended the use of more fruit, and less meat. In the 

 south, where chills and fever abound, the people ate three times 

 as much meat as here ; but where apples were abundantly 

 eaten, there were no chills and fever. 



Mechanic Arts. 



The arts are the arms of genius. The one holds possession 

 of the head, the other commands the hand. If the brain be 

 smitten and bruised, the muscles become nerveless. The arts 

 die when invention fails ; they are the " wheel broken at the 

 cistern," the dissolving form from which life has departed. Ge- 

 nius plans, the arts execute. She discovers, they explore ; she 

 descries the summits, they reach and measure their heights. 

 She has searched out the mysteries of the magnet, they made 

 the compass, and under its silent direction, sought and found 

 the shores of a new world. If genius exalts human nature to 

 an approximation to Deity, the arts elevate the condition, sup- 

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