"After the rudiments of education and religious instruction, 

 the next step would be with authors of agriculture, Cato, Varro, 

 and Columella, . . . and here will be an occasion of inciting 

 and enabling them hereafter to improve the tillage of their country, 

 to recover the had soil, and to remedy the waste that is made of good. " 

 — Milton, 



