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world better and not worse, because 1 had lived in it." We feel proud to 

 say there is no divine right of kings here; no royal road to greatness. 

 No young man or woman can be great but through his own energy, or, in 

 that homely but true phrase, "Get up and get." If any do inherit a for- 

 tune, it takes a good degree of common sense and work to keep it. We 

 know " 'Tis not in a wild chorus ol praise nor chance, not yet fate; 'tis 

 the greatness born in him and with him that makes man truly great." 



It is wise to educate the infant, the youth, the man and even the old. 

 for the older we grow the more accurate the thought should be. We love- 

 the thought of always being a student, and these meetings should serve 

 us right here. No one is so ignorant as the one who in this age of science 

 and development will say, "I know enough." 



Some of us, upon inviting persons to take part in our institutions, 

 have heard them say: "I have more good sense about farming than ail 

 the universities in Illinois." I don't know how you think, but the thought 

 of the Pharisee of ancient days comes to me 



Friends, if the great Newton. \sl±o is the marvel of time, could dis- 

 cover the laws of gravitation and go to depths of science, and in bis ripe 

 years of knowledge and resource, exclaim, "I seem to have been only 

 like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then 

 finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the 

 great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." How can we, 

 whose discoveries have been less great, exclaim we know enough? Then 

 let us grasp these agencies for education. 



The Farmers' Institute seems to us the beginning of something bet- 

 ter; a new era. The 20th century movement indeed. Free from politics, 

 sectarianism, or unions of any sort, the only requisite is for us to wish 

 more knowledge. 



Why should not that occupation — farming — which is the very 

 foundation of all earth as to sustenance, both physical and moral, as 

 well receive every attention; receive highest honor, and why should not 

 the farmer get fully equipped for the arduous and great responsibilities 

 that ever have been, and ever will be, upon him? 



