416 CONCLUSION. 



their educational duties in earnest. What floods 

 of useless sufferings deluge every so-called civi- 

 lised land in the world ! 



When we look back on ages past, and see there 

 the same sufferings, we may say that perhaps 

 then they were unavoidable on account of the 

 ignorance which prevailed. But*human genius, 

 stimulated by our modern Renaissance, has 

 already indicated new paths to follow. 



For thousands of years in succession to grow 

 one's food was the burden, almost the curse, 

 of mankind. But it need be so no more. If 

 you make yourselves the soil, and partly the 

 temperature and the moisture which each crop 

 requires, you will see that to grow the yearly 

 food of a family, under rational conditions of 

 culture, requires so little labour that it might 

 almost be done as a mere change from other 

 pursuits. If you return to the soil, and co-ope- 

 rate with your neighbours instead of erecting 

 high walls to conceal yourself from their looks ; 

 if you utilise what experiment has already 

 taught us, and call to your aid science and 

 technical invention, which never fail to answer 

 to the call look only at what they have done for 

 warfare you will be astonished at the facility 

 with which you can bring a rich and varied food 

 out of the soil. You will admire the amount 

 of sound knowledge which your children will 



