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wanting in the performance of some duty. 

 This is the stand-point from which we must 

 view success in grape culture. 



Further than this, as a grape grower, you are 

 under certain obligations to the grape consumer 

 to give him the best in its best condition ; and 

 you owe it to yourself not to regard the great 

 mass of the people, the " million," as an inferior 

 and degraded class, incapable of any but the 

 lowest forms of enjoyment, and for whom any 

 thing is good enough that you can induce them 

 to buy. That would be a gross outrage and 

 insult to our common humanity. If the masses, 

 from want of opportunity, have not yet attained 

 to the same knowledge of excellence in fruits 

 that you possess, remember that it is only a short 

 time since you knew as little in this respect as 

 they do now, and esteem it a privilege to help 

 them to the same measure and degree of enjoy- 

 ment. Be assured that all labor that tends to 

 the improvement of public taste by placing the 

 good within its knowledge and reach will meet 

 its appropriate reward, not alone in that which 

 makes rich, but also in that exalted conscious- 

 ness of well-doing which riches can neither pur- 

 chase nor take away. Attune yourself to the 



