14-1849.] 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



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SATURDA Y, A UGUST 25, 1849. 





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uncil of Educati 

 om have conde] 



present day, exhibited in no c 



been well remai 



l the true sense o 



apply the i 



Direction for himself. Leave 

 Skis, and you address that to h 

 Again and again has this ' 1 

 itself into mem 



iller-s tale'jei 

 ma on the sul 



of Agricultural I 



as the words of the Apocrypi 



Wisdom that holdeth the Pk 



in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied i 



their labours, and whose talk is of the breed < 



Amongst the multiplying problems of Society 3 



the present day — amongst those ' signs of the time: 



which meet us face to face in the crowded thorougl 



fare of the street, and mix themselves, unconsciousb 



and the monc 



Cotton mill, -in the days of 



;r spend their rare holiday in a 

 in the neighbouring country, 

 rits of the 'Linn^ean' and the 

 -tern— when symplified and popularised 

 Science, cheap as the paper it is printed on, occupies 



humbler appetite of labour has been sated, — when the 

 factory boy or girl, neatly dressed and 

 mannered, stands by the cotton-frame I 



calls of T - 



" early closing m< 

 lage, — when the i 

 port and Manche 



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itands before us open to remark, and si 

 lenial)— what is to be don 



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words of the Preacher to be 



Soil like the sentence of perpetual banis 



ned in I 1 of Science, 



and the education of the faculties to observe and 



The answer may seem distant as yet— "Small as 

 man's hand " upon the far horizon ; but it is one 

 hose bearing is not only upon the mere practice 



Husbandry itself— though that is no small matter 



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posed to be denned, than the 1 

 uproar, and the warmest sympathy is' chilled into 

 i two minds are agreed even at the 

 threshold. And while the doctors differ, the patient 

 is left to cure himself as best he can ; just so much 

 worse off than he was before in proportion as indi- 

 vidual enterprise and private benevolence are too 

 often suspended for the hoped-for issue of public 

 sentiment. 



That the effects of this evil are felt most severely, 

 and especially in the rural districts of this country, 

 we have from time to time received sensible and 

 complaining evidence. In towns, and especially in 



which bring some remedy, in ways direct and in- 

 — . 

 1 utterly neglected. The very 

 inst mind, in the after-contest 

 of manual skill, the quickly 

 stency, the personal and imme- 

 on the very heel of the blunder 

 mat occasions it, the multitude of surrounding 

 examples, of virtue and vice, of ignorance and know- 

 ledge, the occa> : ite or reading 

 room, the popular lecture perhaps, where scientific 

 nth of some sort, is dressed up in words 

 that the little child, or that harder learner the/w#- 

 ;. can understand, and carry away at 

 thereof." These and many i 

 ing in the aggregate, help to clear the mental 

 losphere around the dullest comprehension, and 

 p up the vitality of the perceptive powers, 

 ange thought! that in the "man-made" town, 



f facultie 



i.hy-.I 



disfigured, — a compel 



spirit and whole vital experience 



What is denied from without is in 



g influence pervades 

 isated from within. As corpi 



of earth, 



in by-gone ages to shake off the iron grasp 

 [ serfdom, so do they seem destined in a later. 



the natural world from the mental eye,". 



gan is reflecting the richest treasures 

 of the fields and woods, the landscape of earth, 

 water, and sky, teeming with multitudinous know- 

 ledge to the instructed looker on,— an unmeaning 

 outspread of wonderment and puzzle to the ignorant. 

 " The history of philosophy," says Liebig, in one 



ra of all ages, 



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pensable means for cultivating the mind. The study 



:\ce of niYsrcs— renders 



i powers of Nature the servants of man, whilst 



i' 



- of matter to govern his 



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Would it' be possible to express in better contrast 



in these words do, the difference between the edu- 



uneducated mind 1 or to describe more 



ldress our remarks) of education itself? 



r ideas of education, influenced as they are by 



incation, naturally partake of " 



mtional to a certain extent in every 

 ook back upon a confused memory of books and 

 and pens and paper, and we are apt to mis- 



juirementof 

 reading, of writing, and of applying these two facul- 

 as expressed in cyphers, to space as- 

 pressed by linear figures, to mass as expressed by 



quirement of the manual use of a tool constitutes 

 apprenticeship to the art in whose manipulations 

 e tool is used. The eye and the hand have, in 

 her case, a familiarity and dexterity to obtain 

 the first instance, which is to be the means 

 that future acquirement from which education of 

 ring. The most expert use 

 of the spade does not make a man a gardener, nor 



le best ploughmanship make him a farmer. 



vious as this truth may be, it is continually 



k i in pi ictirp, and an immense amount of 



olnre suffered in after life, by 



ature encounter with Nature on the part of 



nds who started with the blundei 



■ he hiowJedgeofthe trade. 

 ion was well marked in Lord Lei- 



avoidably 

 >ry mind. 



