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inwardly for the highest. Sublimer in this 

 world know I nothing than a Peasant Saint." 



And again, "It is not because of his toils that 

 I lament for the poor; we must all toil; no faith- 

 ful workman finds his toil a pastime 



But what I do mourn over is that the lamp of his 

 soul should go out; that no ray of heavenly or 

 even of earthly knowledge should visit him. 



That there should one man die ignorant 



who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a 

 tragedy." 



That so many farmers with a fine capacity for 

 knowledge have died ignorant is the tragedy of 

 agriculture, if indeed it is not surpassed by the 

 fact that so many are living in such a circum- 

 scribed world of their own today. It is not 

 suggested that farmers are more ignorant than 

 other classes, but no one will contend that the 

 fine intellects of the land are being cultivated and 

 employed as they might. So there emerges an 

 intellectual need, to satisfy which the U.F.O. is 

 taking vigorous measures. The great aim and 

 object of the U.F.O. is the training and utilizing 

 of public intelligence, especially as located in 

 rural Ontario. In undertaking thus to meet an- 

 other perpetual need the U.F.O. reveals one more 

 element of permanence. 



Probably the successful conduct of this phase 

 of the work presents more difficulties than that 



