20 INTRODUCTION. 



Agriculture is an honorable, a delightful and a glorious 

 pursuit: the first man who lived on earth was an agriculturist, 

 -and agriculture must exist till the last man leaves it. 



But all labor is honorable: the GREAT FIRST CAUSE 

 works, nature works, and every man who enjoys her 

 fruits, ought to hold it honorable to work. When shall the 

 glorious time dawn, that intelligence and true philanthropy 

 shall annihilate the selfish distinction which pride has made 

 between labour and idleness? May that auspicious day soon 

 arrive when the worthless distinctions between mental and 

 physical labour shall cease to exist, which separates man from 

 his fellow man, and all the tenants of earth meet as equal 

 sovreigns of our common inheritance. 



