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principles do these rights rest ? He has rights of person, rights in 

 his citizenship, rights in his property. These rights are embodied 

 and set forth in a charter, termed a constitution, or a charter of 

 rights. The principles on which some rights rest are self-evident ; 

 in others, there is complexity involving mutual but oftentimes con- 

 flicting interests and unsettled questions. They involve questions 

 concerning man as a species, as a person, a citizen, a subject ; con- 

 cerning man as a governor or judge, as a special member of the 

 body politic, as one of a nation of men, as a minister of good to hia 

 race, and finally concerning man as tub representative of god 

 ON TiiE EARTH. For all theso functions, it is essential that stores of 

 knowledge should be accumulated ; that the intellect and affections 

 should be cultivated ; that the reason may go forth untrammelled to 

 the work. If there is truth in these views, then those who maintain 

 that the functions of the farmer are bound up in the tillage of land, 

 be it little or much, degrade his station, limit his sphere and belittle 

 his destiny. 



Let it not be supposed from the tenor of the above remarks that 

 it is our wish to spiritualize, in the platonic sense of the word, the' 

 pursuits of the laboring man and of the farmer, that he may soar 

 above the ordinary occupations of life, and live in an unprofitable 

 meditation of abstract truth ; or withdraw his mind wholly from 

 what is visible, and fix it upon the fancied essences, or more pro- 

 perly the vapors of things : for we belong to that class who wish 

 that realities, those things which are tangible, and which are fruitful 

 in their several spheres, should be the main subject sought after 

 here. While, however, we would guard the mind from ancient error, 

 we would by no means have the student pursue a course whose ten-^ 

 dency is to impart the belief that buying and selling is the chief 

 good, and wealth the great object : we would still have him pursue 

 that course which elevates the mind, which improves the intellect, 

 and which shall lead him to regard his spiritual part as the noblest, 

 whose education is after all the great and main thing, and to which 

 all things else are to be subservient. 



Whatever view we may take of a plan of education, if we wouldW Jii 

 be true to nature, we must keep in view the fact that man is a com- 

 pound ; that he is both body and spirit ; that he has compound 

 wants, wants of the body and wants of the spirit ; and we must 

 keep in view the relative value of the two. Nor should we forget 



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