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service, with an honest purpose to serve one's neighbors 

 us mucli as one's self, but to help one's self at the expense 

 of his neighbors. This system of private antasronisticul ef- 

 fort, necessarily places the weak, and the less informed, at 

 the mercy of the strong, and the more intelligent. It is a 

 kind of half-humanised cannibalism, which, instead of de- 

 vouring veritable human flesh, only consumes the bread and 

 meat of the millions, without which, no flesh can be form- 

 ed. A plan must be devised by which every family shall 

 produce as much as it consumes ; and create a fair equiv- 

 alent for all its property. The interest of the many must 

 be carefully studied and maintained by all public servants. 

 The common good of all requires the opening of a public 

 market for the sale of honest, productive labor, where il can 

 command full employment, and not tiirec-fourths, nor nine- 

 tenths, but the whole of the proceeds of such labor. Why 

 should a poor family pay a bounty to a rich one for the priv- 

 ilege of working, and creating all the necessaries and com- 

 forts of life, that the rich family may set a bad example and 

 impair its moral well being, by indulging thro' life, in hab- 

 its of idleness and dissipation ? This question has got to be 

 ■answered before fifty more New Years come round. The 

 general diffusion of knowledge among the laboring masses 

 will soon secure to each member of the community the 

 equal right to labor without sufi'ering the wrong of having 

 to give to capital a premium for the privilege of living in 

 civilized society. Humanity now gets less than its own ; 

 while Capital, controlled by that " love of money" which 

 God has declared to be " the root of all evil," contrives to 

 acquire what does not belong to it. Neither money, nor 

 the love of it, has ever performed its whole duty in the 

 community. By a species of blind idolatry, the thing, 

 property is most insanely elevated far above Man, its Crea- 

 tor. This subversion of a law of Heaven, can not be much 

 longer endured by the toiling millions who work hard, fare 

 hard, and die poor, that a favored few may produce nothing 

 and yet "be clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare 

 sumptuously every day." 



The command of God that we shall " love our neighbors 

 as ourselves," must be literally obeyed in practice, as well 

 as preached to men that permit their wot-ks to contradict 

 their professions of faith in the principles of the Bible. A 

 dead foith and a living one are very dilTcrent things. It is a 

 living, active, working fiiith in Providence which is destin- 

 ed to rule the world. Tiie opposition to the rule of Truth 

 and Justice, will continue to be intense, and may be pro- 

 tracted for years to come ; but it will certainly succumb at 

 last. Scientific Agriculture will do more to convince the 

 world that no one man needs more tiian his well directed 

 industry can produce, than all other pursuits put together. 

 Badly cultivated, large landed estates, will one day cease to 

 be objects of human cupidity. They will come to be re- 

 garded as an incumbrance on the hands of the possessor, 

 imposing responsibilities from which intelligent men will 

 gladly escape. Science will demonstrate to the satisfaction 

 of the controlling majoritj', that the world is large enough 

 to give all a fair chance to work, earn, and enjoy a liberal 

 supply of all the comforts and advantages that moral and 

 accountable beings can reasonably desire. It does not im- 

 ply the abridgement of any man's happiness or rights to se- 

 cure to every other human being an equal chance to labor 

 for himself, and have all that his honest toil shall call into 

 existence. This is the direction in which the public mind 

 is now tending. It is the elevation of the laboring nrasses 

 to a state of independen'-e, without depressing any above 

 Ihem, that engages li rnest study of the wisest and best 

 men of the age in ^vni h we live. The year 1846 is not 

 more signalized by liie <;i covery of a new world, than by 

 the acknowledgement of ; he British government of iia moral 



obligation to give employment, not bread, to its destitute 

 subjects in Ireland and Scotland. This distinction is an im- 

 portant step in the progress of human emancipation. The 

 old system of giving bread without employment, created no 

 fewer than four millions of public paupers in the United 

 Kingdom — one eigth of its whole population ! 



The importance of Universal jLdueation is beginning to be 

 felt and generally acknowledged. Agricultural, and other 

 schools are springing into existence in all parts of the two 

 islands. In short, the most powerful nation on the globe 

 seems to have adopted our republican motto — that the Labor 

 of tlie Hands, and the Culture of the Intellect must go to- 

 gether. Similar sentiments are extending silently, but uni- 

 versally, over Continental Europe. We rejoice at the 

 Future that awaits the thousands of millions of our race, 

 who, having ceased to do evil, and learned to do well, 

 shall reap at last, their great reward. In this work of mor- 

 al, intellectual and social improvement, the Tillers of the 

 Earth are destined to act a conspicuous and most honorable 

 part. Most certainly if no efibrt be made, no important 

 good can be attained. 



Young Men's Agricultural Association and School. 



We have given in thi.s. paper the outline of a 

 plan for an Agricultural Association and School, 

 which eiTibraces the results of some experience, 

 and much thought, and is earnestly commended 

 to the favorable consideration of every reader. 



An Agricultural School, to be perfect in all its 

 details, requires the expenditure of more money 

 than any one or two men of ordinary means can 

 afford to give for that purpose. It was the full 

 appreciation of this fact that induced the writer 

 to urge the Legislature, by petition, or in person, 

 for years, to do a little something to aid in mak- 

 ing scientific farmers, as well as so much for the 

 benefit of doctors and lawyers. These efforts 

 were unavailing. The hojye of an Institution, 

 that should present to the ingenuous sons of farm- 

 ers a fair chance for honorable distinction by the 

 study of the Natural Sciences, and their success- 

 ful application to agriculture, and thus elevate 

 their profession to that high and commanding 

 position which it ought to occupy in every com- 

 munity, seemed to rest on the slender basis of a 

 doubtful private enterprise. The experiment 

 has been tried, and is likely to fail — not from 

 any lack of good paying jiupils, but from the 

 sheer want of comfortable buildings for their ac- 

 coinmodation. These we have never had ; and 

 it is idle to suppose thtit men of literary and sci- 

 entific attainments will throw away their time on 

 a school where only 15 or 16 students can be 

 furnished witli rooms and other necessaries. By 

 an amicable arrangement with Gen. HARiMON, 

 the Principal of the Institution has it in his own 

 hands ; but it will not long be kept up without 

 some provision for the accommodation of riore 

 students. No expense has been spared by the 

 \v -iter of this, in procuring an excellent appara- 

 i ^or making chemical analyses; and with a 

 ♦1 hance, instead of having 15 young men at 

 wuii^ in his laboratory, his applications for ad- 



