XVIII. 

 TALPA' LOQUITUR. 



AMONG the various experiences which the much more 

 social Agriculture of the last twenty years has brought, 

 (for a great change has come over us in that particu- 

 lar since well never mind how long ago I was go- 

 ing to say, ) there is none which has struck me more 

 than that part of its philosophy which consists in the 

 operation of mind upon mind. That of ' mind upon 

 matter ' is not a very new subject : we see it every 

 day, and hear of it too, till it is something tiresome : 

 just now we are on a different theme, and a less trod- 

 den : ' mind upon mind ' is our point at present, and 

 perhaps the more important, of the two, after all. I 

 was going to say that in a pretty long and intimate 

 experience of a rather curious soil to deal with, and 

 to which never did man, horse, or implement, deny 

 the epithet ' stiff,' I too, like them, have had my own 



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