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the vegetable and animal reign of the happier climates, and the in- 

 dustry of the Oriental world. And his own Italy soon puts on all 

 her beauty and loveliness. Campania is covered with charming re- 

 treats and stately villages — and the genius oi famine no more stalks 

 abroad till the Vandamc hordes sully the imperial purple, and break 

 the iron camps that united the massive foundations of that renowned 

 republic. 



But we do not stop here; a list of public worthies may be found 

 since the dawn of the sixteenth century who have awoke whole na- 

 tions from their leaden slumbers, and have transfused a new source 

 of joy and amelioration among the down-trodden masses. 



And if the benefactors of our race are to have their appropriate 

 niche in the Temple of Fame, and military prowess, and political in- 

 trigue and chicanery, shall cease to dazzle and bewilder mankind; 

 then our own country will ever venerate an Elliott, a Lowell, and a 

 Gaylord — names distinguished in the professional walks, whose minds 

 were richly stored with whatever can illustrate or adorn science. 

 These men were the generous, untiring, and successful promoters of 

 agriculture. 



In our father-land, a Fitzherbert, a Young, Sinclair, and Davy, 

 have brought Science out of chaos into order, traversed continents, 

 dove into the recesses of nature, and have treasured up their immense 

 accumulations not only for the benefit of the Agricultural industry 

 of their own country, but have also filled the world with their giant 

 labors. Nor has enlightened France been behind her sister king- 

 doms in the principles of scientific husbandry. She has produced 

 Olivier de Serres, the father of French Agriculture, and the first in- 

 troducer of experimental farming. And what shall we say of a 

 Duhamel, and a Malasherbes? Their aspiring souls were cast in too 

 liberal a mould, and were endowed with too much public spirit, not 

 to acclimate and naturalize, in their native soil, many choice vege- 

 tables. 



All Germany, since the wars of Napoleon, have awakened from 

 their lethargic slumbers, and their different governments have, with 

 comsummate sagacity, established more than sixty Agricultural 

 schools within her fertile territories. Hence have arisen the immor- 

 tal Von Thaer and the indefatigable Liebig, whose luminous works 

 show how Agriculture, when elevated by Science, can beautify and 

 double the resources of a country. 



