THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



that we create into the proper channels so as to create a better 

 people. But even this is not quite enough. We may have wealth 

 and social prosperity, and home comforts, and not be a high-minded, 

 stalwart, courageous and brave people. We must teach that." 



"I want you to feel to-day that you have hold of one of the 

 greatest lines of social uplift and development and greatness that 

 exist." 



"But you are beginning at the bottom to influence the masses 

 of mankind, and ultimately those masses always control the des- 

 tinies of a country. If you allow their practices to sink lower and 

 lower the country must ultimately drop to a lower level in its moral, 

 political and religious tone, and we go down into degradation and 

 infamy as a nation; but if we begin at the bottom and plant human 

 action upon the rock of high principles, with right cultivation of the 

 soil, right living for the common people, and comforts everywhere, 

 and make wealth and prosperity all through the rural districts, the 

 people will lend their support and all civilization will rise higher 

 and higher, and we shall climb to the summit of human excellence 

 and become a beacon light to all nations of the world. I do not glory 

 in the wealth of a few, but rejoice in the general distribution of 

 wealth and prosperity for the common people." 



SOUTHERN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, CHATTANOOGA, 

 TENNESSEE, DECEMBER, 1910. 



"A large proportion of the vast wealth created annually from 

 the soil ultimately enriches the city, instead of developing and im- 

 proving the resources of the country." 



"A love for the soil is not created or enhanced by the study of a 

 book on agriculture, or any pedagogic lessons in soil manipulation. 

 It is founded on an intelligent and successful farm life and the en- 

 vironment of an orderly and thrifty country home. The pupil at this 

 stage is not thinking about tendencies any more than the nursing 

 child thinks about growing. He is simply developing. 



"The most failures in farming are on the business side and not 

 on the scientific side." 



"A town farm, and especially a farm owned by the public, can 

 never be economic. It might be healthful because the public would 

 laugh at it." 



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