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population. I have said that the Labor attended with the 

 best results is intelligent labor, — that what may be called an 

 agricultural literature embodying scientific principles and their 

 application, facts and experiments, success and failure, — what 

 has been attempted and what accomplished, will in different 

 ways be turned to account, guiding, aiding, stimulating, inspir- 

 ing courage and hope. I have spoken of education and 

 knowledge not only as dignifying labor, but as promoting true 

 manliness and elevation of character, — and lastly, of their 

 influence in enhancing the pleasures of a country life, teaching 

 habits of observation and thought, which will render communion 

 with nature, in her daily processes and phenomena, a source of 

 ever varying and fresh delight. Much more might be said, but 

 I forbear. 



::i_-All honor to labor ! Honor to him who, in patience and a 

 trusting spirit, performs his allotted work, and improves in it, 

 doing better to-day than he did yesterday, finishing and perfect- 

 ing what is given him to do, and above all, perfecting himself. 

 To the fowls of the air and the lilies of the field only is it 

 appointed to sow not, nor to gather into barns, to toil not, nor 

 to spin ; to man is assigned great labors, but through them 

 dominion and a crown. 



