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I have now exhausted all the subjects of discus- 
sion, which my experience or information have been 
able to supply on the connection of chemistry with 
agriculture. 
I venture to hope, that some of the views brought 
forward, may contribute to the improvement of the 
most important and useful of the arts. 
I trust that the enquiry will be pursued by 
others; and that in proportion as chemical philoso- 
phy advances towards perfection, it will afford new 
aids to agriculture. 
There are sufficient motives connected both with 
pleasure and profit, to encourage ingenious men to 
pursue this new path of investigation. Science 
cannot long be despised by any persons as the 
mere speculation of theorists; but must soon be 
considered by all ranks of men in its true point of 
view, as the refinement of common sense, guided 
by experience, gradually substituting sound and 
rational principles, for vague, popular prejudices. 
The soil offers inexhaustible resources, which, 
when properly appreciated and employed, must 
increase our wealth, our population, and our physi- 
cal strength. 
We possess advantages in the use of machinery, 
and the division of labour, belonging to no other 
nation. And the same energy of character, the 
same extent of resources which have always dis- 
tinguished the people of the British Islands, and 
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