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of careful observation and discrimination, as will be of 

 incalculable service to them in after life. As their 

 knowledge of the objects and phenomena of nature 

 increases, there will be a constant increase of the pleas- 

 ure of observing- its variety, and beauty, and harmony ; 

 and they will, in time, become so thoroughly imbued with 

 the spirit of the 'naturalist, that they will go forth from 

 the school-room to their rural occupations, prepared to 

 derive enjoyments from them, which none but the stu- 

 dent of nature can know. Although very few of them 

 may be expected to become familiar with the minute 

 details of natural history, yet they will all have acquired 

 such tastes and habits, and so much knowledge, as will 

 make them always interested and delighted with ob- 

 jects, and aspects, and operations of nature around 

 them. When they go forth into the field with the 

 plough, the hoe, the sickle, or the scythe, where the 

 ordinary laborer is cheered onward by no other motive, 

 or object, than pecuniary gain the hope of well-filled 

 barns, and granaries, and cellars they, in addition to 

 these more sordid motives, will be animated, delighted 

 and more amply rewarded by observing the manifold 

 workings of that beneficent Providence, which so liber- 

 ally rewards them for all their toil. The observance of 

 the genial influence of sun and rains the process of 

 vegetation through all its stages of growth and decay 

 the transformations, and changes, and habits of insects, 

 and other animals, and their relations to the business 

 and interests of the farmer in short, the enlightened 

 contemplation and study of the countless variety of the 

 Creator's works, are constantly leading them to rejoice 

 in the contemplation of the infinite wisdom and good- 

 ness of the Almighty Creator. 



