22 MR. gray's address. 



youth, our daiigliters as corner stones, po-ishcd after the 

 simihtude of a palace. Then may our garners be full, 

 aObrding all nnanner of store, and our sheep bring forth 

 thousands and ten thousands in our streets. Then may 

 our oxen be strong to labor; there shall be no breaking 

 in nor going out, and no complaining in our streets." 



The introduction of agriculture into our literary insti- 

 tutions will tend to render the employment 7nore i^eputa- 

 ble. It vvill give it a professional character. A greater 

 nnmber of men will engage in it, and a necessity crea- 

 ted for a higher state of intellectual and moral culture in 

 the community, in order to practise the art successfully 

 in its advanced and perfected state. Hence, it will tend 

 to elevate and enlighten the popular mind. 



It is the greatest objection to a farmer's life, that it 

 furnishes too little excitement for the mind ; his body 

 works ; there is little else but an exertion of muscle, there 

 is nothing for the brain to do. The reason is, he has no 

 scientific principles to apply ; but give him a knowledge 

 of these ; let him feel that he has observations to make 

 and principles to apply, nice and difficult questions to 

 settle, and you at once furnish him with something to 

 excite his intellect. You will thus create an interest in his 

 mind, and an exertion of its powers, which will soon 

 transform him from a condition but a little above the tar- 

 dy beasts which drag his plough, to that of one whose 

 powerful intellect shall correspond to the giant and sinewy 

 frame which his occupation usually produces. 



The lawyer employs his mind about his profession. It 

 affords him matter for thought, and stimulates his facul- 

 ties to effort ; so it is with the physician, the minister, 

 the mechanic and the merchant \ these pursuits, being 

 based on scientific principles, require constant exercise 

 of the mind, the habit of patient observation and reflec- 

 tion is cherished, and the intellect made vigorous and 

 strong. iJence^ the interest which men of these profes- 

 sions feel in their employments. They have something 

 to task the mind. But the case is quite the reverse with 

 the flirmer. His thoughts arc rarely employed about his 

 profession ; other subjects excite his interest, and not 



