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Chronicler, amidst his own early blunders and extra- 

 vagance, has yet had no occasion to correct the first 

 impression with which he looked upon a child turned 

 into a scarecrow for the new-sown field, a boy ' driving 

 plough' the livelong day, and a man (a MIND!) 

 threshing in a barn ! without one hour for the instruc- 

 tion and development of that higher part which 

 separates his mind from the Brutes, his body from 

 Machinery ! 



Talk of ' Agricultural Improvements' of the diffi- 

 culty of getting the labourers to take to a new imple- 

 ment, or adopt an improved method ! What enables 

 you to sec its advantage and adopt it? Your Mind. 

 What cultivates your farm better than your neigh- 

 bour's ? Your mind. If that alone be left unculti- 

 vated around you, at every point, at every turn, in 

 every field, in every furrow, in every hedge, in every 

 ditch, in your House, in your Dairy, in your Stable, 

 in your Barn, everywhere and at every time, by Day 

 and Night, Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn 

 the neglect that has been allowed to sow itself, the 

 moral weed-crop, will meet your eye to bafllc and 

 torment you with the feeling so truthfully expressed, 

 when you say that you ' have not a single mind you 

 can depend upon ! ' 



