V. 



A CHAPTER ON AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS. 



December, 1849. 



O^ABLE property, or capital, may procure a man all the 

 advantages of wealth; but PROPERTY IN LAND gives him 

 much more than this. It gives him a place in the domain of the 

 world ; it unites his life to the life which animates all creation. 

 Money is an instrument by which man can procure the satisfaction 

 of his wants and his wishes. Landed property is the establishment 

 of man as sovereign in the midst of nature. It satisfies not only his 

 wants and his desires, but tastes deeply implanted in his nature. For 

 his family, it creates that domestic country called home, with all the 

 loving sympathies and all the future hopes and projects which peo- 

 ple it And whilst property in land is more consonant than any 

 other to the nature of man, it also affords a field of activity the most 

 favorable to his moral development, the most suited to inspire a just 

 sentiment of his nature and his powers. In almost all the other 

 trades and professions, whether commercial or scientific, success ap- 

 pears to depend solely on himself on his talents, address, prudence 

 and vigilance. In agricultural life, man is constantly in the pre- 

 sence of God, and of his power. Activity, talents, prudence and 

 vigilance, are as necessary here as elsewhere to the success of his 

 labors ; but they are evidently no less insufficient than they are ne- 

 cessary. It is God who rules the seasons and the temperature, the 

 sun and the rain, and all those phenomena of nature which deter- 

 mine the success or the failure of the labors of man on the soil 

 which he cultivates. There is no pride which can resist this de- 

 pendence, no address which can escape it. Nor is it only a senti 



