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fortunate that the natural course of things has of late driven capital 

 into those channels which are the most beneficial to the State; and 

 where can it be better employed for the interest of the whole com- 

 munity, than to embark it in domestic agriculture? Indeed, were 

 any one tinctured with the rudiments of political arithmetic, he 

 would readily appreciate the immensity of its object, and the extent 

 and grandeur of its operation. For this main pillar is now sum- 

 moning every department of nature and art to contribute its share in 

 the illustration and development of its principles, and its unrivalled 

 benefits have more than doubled within a single generation, and its 

 culture has been found to exert a reflux energy on its harJy and 

 enterprising friends and promoters. 



In inviting the attention of the public to the establishment of an 

 agricultural school, to be located with an easy access to this great • 

 city, besides what has already been suggested, it would seem need- 

 less to remind so respectable and intelligent an audience, that nothing 

 can be further from our object than an interference with those other 

 admirable institutions which are scattered over our State. We honor 

 their generous founders, and enlightened patrons, and deem the small 

 pittance they have received from the public chest, a poor compensa- 

 tion for the immense benefit they have conferred on the public. 

 And he must be an alien from the commonweatth of letters, and 

 live in the lonely recesses of ignorance, who would ungenerously 

 bint, that literary circles, and scientific bodies could be found in so 

 false a position, as to make the least show of hostility to the implan- 

 tation of agricultural learning in that generous soil which already 

 abounds in other rare and delicious fruits. 



Inded, we flatter ourselves much on the advantages, that will 

 necessarily accrue to the contemplated school in being found in so 

 fortunate a location, as to afford the means of co-operation and 

 assistance of able and qualified professors, to fill the chairs to be set 

 apart for its liberal instruction. 



Science and literature are strong in affinity, and radiate their heat 

 and light as the bounteous earth and the superincumbent air distil 

 the gentle and seasonable dew. 



Can that man be found who has traced one of the great elements 

 of wealth to its unfathomed beds, who does not see, that from the 

 agricultural population are recruited the muscle and bone, which 

 give motion and strength to the body politic. Look at your work- 

 shops, counting-houses, exchanges, the offices surfeited by the learned. 



