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form a grazing country where these rocks predonainate, namely, 
sweet or pure water, and a hilly surface. The water, under such 
circumstances, drains off rapidly, and leaves the soil refreshed; it 
will not stagnate above or beneath the surface. If the grass and 
herbage is not so luxuriant, it is sweeter, and promotes the health 
of the animals which feed upon it. The atmosphere circulates 
freely over the hills and through the valleys, and thereby rapidly 
renews the essential elements of life and activity. 
SCIENCE, THEORY, AND PRACTICE. 
BV. AV. 
In your January No. I note some remarks on the union of 
" Science with Practice," which are true in the sense in which the 
terms are used, but as I have frequently noticed in similar state- 
ments, these terms are employed with a looseness that renders the 
truth limited and partial. 
As your Journal on its title page indicates the close and inti- 
mate connexion between agriculture and science, you will perhaps 
not object to a short enquiry as to why and how they are con- 
nected, in the course of which some definitions of the terms, 
science, theory, and practice will be necessary. 
And first, as to why they are, or rather why they should be, 
connected ; not only in fact and absolutely, but also in the con- 
sciousness and daily practice of ajl of us. 
It is the wise design of Providence, that each man's possession, 
whilst it provides for his own wants and those of others, should 
have a higher significancy and value to him by becoming a means 
of his intellectual, moral, and spiritual culture. 
Whilst there is no profession, which, if pursued in a right spirit 
will not tend to this object, some, from their nature, have this 
tendency in a higher degree than others. 
Men are so constituted that whilst the majority have chiefly in 
view the more immediate object of gaining a livelihood or better- 
ing their condition by means of their occupation, a certain num- 
ber will be more interested in the higher consideration with which 
it is connected. 
It is the peculiarity of Agriculture, that there is no profession 
which admits, to the same degree, this contrast, viz. on the one 
hand, of a perfectly illiberal and narrow drudgery, and on the 
other, an introduction to the highest spiritual, moral and intellec- 
tual truths. 
