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are not drones in the social hive. While some make the honey, 
others equally laborious collect wax to form the cell; others con- 
struct it, and others toil in polishing it. Each is useful in his appropriate 
sphere, and most of our population have become entirely competent to 
see that each person becomes, in human affairs, more useful by more 
careful training, and more liberal and appropriate acquirements. 
Indeed, learning is vain — all education is vain — if we cannot, and do 
not, appreciate better, as better educated, the importance of this training, 
and ail appropriate information, scientific or otherwise, for particular sta- 
tions and pursuits, and raise the standard higher, which is required for 
distinguished success in all the more difficult professions and employ- 
ments. 
One of the peculiarities of our whole country, as far as the settlements 
extend, has become, that we now have no uncivilized portions, in the 
common use of that term ; all being occupied by men accustomed to 
many of the practical benefits of science before their emigration, and 
carrying with them tastes and intelligence to introduce these benefits as 
speedily as possible, and to appreciate their value, rather than oppose the 
encouragement of them. Or why do you see the steamboat smoking its 
way even to the Falls of St. Anthony ? Or why the railroad and canal 
stretching across regions where but recently the hunter trapped his game ? 
Or why cities rising near girdled timber, and schools and colleges planted 
on the skirts of forests? Even the Passamaquoddy Indian has become 
convinced of the inferiority in travelling of his birch canoe to the steam- 
boat and railroad car ; and while he now uses the aid of science in his 
migrations, as well as in his rifle and gunpowder, instead of the bow 
and arrow, and in his machine made woollens and cottons, rather than 
skins for clothing, he but recognises that confidence in superior science 
and skill in all appropriate matters or stations, which has increased, under 
the lights of the nineteenth century, over our whole country; is increas- 
ing still faster, yearly; and which, by due attention, will hereafter work 
still greater wonders. 
Not that this will make our people wish, as some seem to fear, to break 
up the tried systems of education for mere youth, and to wage war on 
classical literature, and substitute in schools philosophical instruments, 
and steam engines, and model machinery, for books and moral teaching, 
or to desire what Lord Bacon deprecated — a solitude in respect of able 
men, to serve them in causes of State.” But with a due regard to those, 
