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need some means of arousing thought and inquiry as 

 precursors to action. Something has already been 

 done. During the past three years I have lectured 

 upon this subject in about a dozen counties, and in 

 something like 400 villages, under the auspices 

 of their respective Technical Education Committees. 

 In spite of the sneers about teaching with a magic 

 lantern, levelled against those who are trying to 

 influence our rural population in its detail, this work 

 has had good effects, and more will be evident as time 

 goes on. It is necessarily slow, but perhaps none the 

 less sure on that account. A movement like this does 

 not enable one man to make a fortune, but it may help 

 a thousand men and women to add to their incomes a 

 sum which is of distinct benefit to them, and thus be 

 of greater general good. 



