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directed to this important object, and schools, with 
efficient masters, have been established in every dis- 
trict. The salutary effects are now beginning to be 
felt in the formation of useful societies, public 
libraries, reading-rooms, and, above all, by a higher 
tone of moral and intellectual feeling spreading 
throughout the colony. The Editor of the South 
African Advertiser, in a recent article adverting to 
the benefits resulting from the formation of agricul- 
tural societies, makes the following remarks :— 
“ Nature has done her part, the earth and sky 
invite our industry, and hold out a boundless reward. 
The contemplated improvement in the condition of 
the labourer will, it may confidently be hoped, in a 
short time put into the hands of the farmer an im- 
proved instrument for the production of wealth. In- 
stead of the listless limb of the ignorant slave, he will 
have for assistance and reliance, the head and heart 
of a free and educated peasantry. The great Poet 
has said, 
‘ There is a tide in the affairs of men, 
Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune ;’ 
and every man of observation must see that in this 
Colony the ‘tide’ has turned in our favour; it is 
rapidly rising and covering the ‘ shallows,’ and the 
miseries where we have lingered long, and bearing 
us almost unconsciously towards shores of fairest 
promise. ‘This, then, is the moment for cheerful 
enterprise—for united exertion, for friendly emu- 
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