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Atlantic, carries the arts of the other side along with it. 

 We are not selfish — perhaps I might say we are eminently 

 unselfish — in wishing you to become agricultural im- 

 provers. But of all the arts, it may be said more truly 

 of agriculture than of any other, that it is of no country. 

 The producer of the common staff of human life, ought 

 in all its perfection, to be the common property of all. 

 In rivaling each other in our endeavours to push forward 

 this highest art of life, Britain and America will be striving 

 only which can do most for the human race. And if we 

 in Britain should benefit hereafter by the advances you are 

 destined to make, — beyond what you have obtained from 

 us, — it will enable us only the more speedily to aid in dif- 

 fusing a knowledge of these advances among the other 

 nations of the globe. 



What is the moral of this discourse, what its immediate 

 application to you whom I have the honor to address ? 



Is there improvement any where — let it be seen among 

 you. Is there agricultural progress any where — you ought 

 not to stand still. Are there means of bettering the modes 

 of culture any where — you possess the same. Is there 

 greater knowledge any Avhere — it is within your reach. Is 

 there energy and determination any where — these qualities 

 are inherited in as great strength by you as by any other 

 people. Is the climate favourable any where for special 

 kinds of culture — you possess all climates, and may take 

 a leaf from the farming book of every country. Is know- 

 ledge necessary any where — it is so among you; if not 

 because of an over-crowded, yet because of a constantly 

 moving, and at present rather retrograde agricultural popu- 

 lation. 



And if in consequence of its progressive tendency, the 

 Teuton blood of the Anglo Saxon shade, is destined, as 

 some believe, to conquer and possess this vast continent 



