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science, also, a debt of gratitude for teaching men to tell the truth. 

 It scrutinizes, and sifts, and refines till it arrives at the fundamental 

 facts of truths. This is a kind of personal training necessary for 

 men of business." 



"The great need of the many is a more scientific and practical 

 knowledge of the common things of life; to the masses the philosophy 

 of the cottage is more important than that of the palace, and the 

 result of the battle between force and matter of deeper moment than 

 one hundred Waterloos. The great captains of the future must 

 marshal the hosts of industry upon the farm and in the workshop." 



"Any education that does not include the social is defective in 

 a most important and useful department of knowledge. This mar- 

 velous fabric, human society, has a wonderful history. How few 

 know anything about it. Ask the average college graduate about the 

 social conditions of our Saxon fathers, in the middle ages, their 

 houses, methods of living, clothing, furniture, highways, fences, the 

 price of lands and products, their amusements, etc. How many can 

 tell? Yet, all of these are necessary in forming a proper estimate 

 of the past. How many college graduates know that at the com- 

 mencement of the reign of Elizabeth the majority of English yeo- 

 manry lived in houses with a single room, with no chimneys, the 

 smoke escaping through a hole in the roof. They slept upon the 

 floor without pillow, they ate from wooden benches; the great bul- 

 wark of our modern civilization, domestic comfort, the elevation of 

 the home, were unknown." 



"Citizenship imposes upon us the responsibility of ultimate de- 

 cision upon all the great questions of government. Any education 

 that does not prepare the student for an honorable citizenship is 

 entitled to such respect only as we give the dead, and should be laid 

 to rest with its kindred ashes in the catacomb." 



FROM ADDRESS AT IOWA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 

 NOVEMBER 9, 1884. 

 "The whistle of the plow-boy, the tumult of trade, the rumblings 

 of engines, the music of the water wheel, the din of hammers, the 

 rattle of looms, rise in a grand chorus of industry all over the land. 

 These are the living evidences of the power of faith and hope." 

 "The broad statesman, the profound scholar, the zealous re- 



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