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tellectual faculties should receive that share of culture which is 

 contended for in this our essay. 



We would not by any means be understood, in these remarks, to 

 say that farmers are to become politicians, in the odious sense of the 

 phrase. We mean only that they should understand as much of 

 history, of law and of legislation, and of rights as they are defined 

 in our constitution, as shall enable them to stand up by the side of.1 

 our professional men, and to encounter successfully the demagogues 

 and party hacks which in these days seem to swarm and multiply 

 out of all proportion to the rest of society. Who, of all our citizens, , 

 are so well prepared to act dispassionately and rightly, as those who 

 are located at a distance from the hot beds of party spirit in our lii 

 cities, and upon a microscopic scale in our villages ; as those who l|ii 

 quietly plough their fields and gather their harvests ? But ignorant J* 

 men are not fit for responsible posts : it is not the mere tiller of the Jm, 

 soil, the untutored laborer, but it is the enlightened workman, the J.? 

 educated farmer, to whom we would commit our great interests ; k 

 to the plain and unsophisticated but not uninstructed sons of thcK i 

 soil, unskilled it may be in intrigue, but who, when they march upa itl 

 to duty, when they exercise their own personal rights, or act on be-i wi 

 half of their fellow citizens by a delegated power, do it without fear^ roi 

 though frowned upon by the scheming partisan and the ambitious*! hi 

 ofl^ice-seeker. nan 



To conclude, we declare that we care not how many institutional Ji 

 are founded, by what name they may be known, or when or by ' 

 whom our young men are educated, provided it is done ; but let 

 not our farmers deceive themselves by founding institutions whose: 

 objects are partial and narrow, and which leave out of view those! 

 courses of study which are necessary to fit the pupil for the dis-! 

 charge of the duties of a citizen of this republic. 



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ON THE STUDY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



BT HON. J. BARLOW. 



It is gratifying to the general reader and naturalist, that the Quar- 

 terly American Journal is devoted, in part, to the interesting branch 

 of natural history, yclept Entomology. This is one of the mosH 



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