XVlll EULOGY. 



producing power while it developed its products. He 

 would guide the efibrt of muscle by the direction of mind. 

 While cuhivating the land, he would enjoy the landscape. 

 While caging the bird, he would not be insensible to its 

 music. The numerous valuable hints and suggestions on 

 the subject of education, that occur in his 'Cultivator,' 

 and other writings, evidence the soundness and correct- 

 ness of his views on that all-important subject. 



The efforts of Judge Buel have greatly tended to 

 make honorable, as well as profitable and improving, the 

 pursuits of agriculture. He clearly perceived, that, to 

 render the farming interest prosperous, it must stand high 

 in the public estimation. So long as it was conceded 

 to be an occupation that required little more than mere 

 habit to follow, and that it was indifferent to success, 

 whether the man possessed great intellectual power, or a 

 mind on a level with the ox he drove, it could not be 

 expected that any would embark in it, unless necessity 

 compelled them, or the very moderate extent of their 

 mental bestowment precluded any reasonable chance of 

 success in any other. He taught men, that agricultural 

 prosperity resulted neither from habit nor chance ; that 

 success was subject to the same law in this, as in other 

 departments of industry, and, before it could be secured, 

 must be deserved ; that mind, intellectual power, and 

 moral purpose, constituted as essential parts in the ele- 

 ments of agricultural prosperity, as in those of any other ; 

 and all these truths he enforced by precept, and illus- 

 trated by practice. By these means, he has called into 

 the field of agricultural labor a higher order of mind ; has 

 elevated the standard of agricultural attainment ; and has 

 tended to render this extensive department of industry as 

 intelligent, respected, and honorable, as it ever has been 

 conceded to be useful, healthy, and independent. 



Thus gifted, esteemed, beloved, distinguished, and in 

 the enjoyment of a reputation coextensive with the agri- 

 cultural interest in this country, it would seem, that, if 

 life were a boon worth possessing, he had almost earned 

 a long and undisturbed enjoyment of it. But the dispen- 

 sations of God to man are full of mystery. Religion 



