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ces and improves, sufficient general intelligence prevails to feel and 
appreciate the want and to suggest the means for the education of 
the children and youth, and schools are opened for general instruc¬ 
tion, books are made, newspapers are published, and all the various 
occupations in the republic of letters have become necessary for the 
same purpose, the general good. The health and vigor of the body, 
the integrity of the conscience, moral purity and the obligations 
of moral duty are felt to be indispensable to well regulated society 
and general order and individual happiness, and the physician and 
minister of religion are assigned to these high places of employ¬ 
ment. In the ever-widening field of inventive genius the great 
agencies of steam and electricity have been brought into subjec¬ 
tion and practical utility, and have increased a thousand fold the 
advantages and the products of all human employments, and made 
necessary a great many new and special departments of business, 
and have brought all the commercial nations nearer to each other 
in familiar and profitable intercourse, and vastly increased the facil¬ 
ities of human progress and 
UNIVERSAL CIVILIZATION AND HAPPINESS, 
improved implements, machinery and methods of husbandry, me¬ 
chanical labor of all kinds and branches of industry have been 
readily adapted. All the available portions of the earth’s sur¬ 
face are being brought into cultivation to meet the new and in¬ 
creasing demands for subsistence and the luxuries of life, and the 
markets of the world. Under the operation of this completed sys¬ 
tem of political economy, in which all the capabilities of man, all 
the agencies of nature, and in short all the resources within human 
reach have been utilized, the civilized world has well nigh reach¬ 
ed its culmination of material and intellectual improvement and 
happiness. The whole structure of our 
PRACTICAL ECONOMY 
has gradually grown up and out of natural conditions, and has been 
established in the philosophical fitness of things, and in my opin¬ 
ion as a whole, and in all its parts and branches, is as near perfec¬ 
tion as human wisdom is able to devise, and adapted to the best 
possible condition of society. In this grand structure, from its 
foundation in man’s first and chief employment, agriculture, to its 
