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them that science, stooping from its prond flight among the 

 clouds and the stars, has shed its genial light around them. 

 Tell them to seek knowledge everywhere, to study nature, and 

 though to learn all her laws and observe all her miracles may 

 seem as hopeless as to gather up all the pebbles on the* shore of 

 the sea, yet, in the enlargement and elevation of mind which 

 it will insure, every object will be clothed with the perfection 

 and beauty wliich it had when it came from the hand of God ! 

 Tell them, that so long as farmers think that nothing is 

 wanting but bone and muscle, strength of sinew and power of 

 endurance, so long will farming languish and be forced by 

 farmers themselves to take its place among the mere mechanical 

 employments, when it might and ought to be elevated and 

 dignified as worthy of the- highest intelligence as opening the 

 field on which human genius has some of its grandest triumphs 

 to achieve ! 



