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untroubled pool, and the movement of the race would be back- 

 ward. The same might be said of any other single employment 

 to which a nation may be confined. Ignorance, prejudice, bigotry, 

 must be the inevitable result ; and if this be the effect of a singlo 

 oocupation, proportionally it is prodiftjod as the range of avocation 

 is narrowed. As in the human body there are innumerable 

 functions — digestion, assimilation, secretion, respiration, circul- 

 ation, accretion— 80 ia the body politic, should all the innumer- 

 able occupations be performed by which the wants of men are 

 supplied. A State with but one employment is like a body with 

 but one function in healthy operation, and all its other powers 

 paralyzed. With every added branch of industry, you restore 

 the use of a power, until at last, when within our own borders 

 human industry exerts its strength and exhausts its ingenuity in 

 every occupation which the wants of the highest civilization can 

 demand, we have a healthy, full-grown and fully developed 

 State. Then is presented a field for the growth of the human 

 intellect — a school in which may be trained and moulded, and 

 ©duoated, not operatives, but Men. How vastly this view of the 

 subject swells In importance beyond its mere economic aspect. 

 What if more money might be brought into a Commonwealth, to 

 be hoarded by the few, if all would buy where they can buy 

 eheapest, and every occupation but one were abandoned 1 I by 

 Bo means believe such would be the case, but I grant it for the 

 Kiomont. Is a population skilled in the industrial arts, inventive, 

 self-dependent, and competent fully to supply its own .:waiits, of 

 no value ? Would you improve the condition of your State by 

 inducing the busy artisans, whose [skilful and intelligent labor 

 has built up the beautiful cities and villages, which every where 

 greet the traveller's eye, to al>andon their various occupations, 

 and betake themselves to one pursuit "? They are educated, iu 

 the literal sense of the word — educo — having something latent in 

 their nature drawn out, instead of knowledge poured in; and in 

 the exercise of their inventive faculties, and in the conseious 

 strength of a being whose well-trained })owers are at command, 

 and whose cunning hand can skilfully execute what the reasoning 

 ilea*] conceives, they become full-grown, well-developed wtw. 

 Such are the citizens who, in future years, must deleud the free 

 pern and uphcvld the honor of our nation. 



