104 WISCONSIN STATE ACHICULTURAL SOCIETY . 
toil in a state suited to the real wants of the people, a general 
financial pressure is scarcely possible, and, if it come, will soon 
disappear. 
MULTIPLY THE CONVENIENCES AND LUXURIES OF LIFE. 
He who placed us here designed us for something higher than 
physical toil and the gratification of physical desires. He has- 
enveloped the earth in beauty, giving us plants and flowers, wav¬ 
ing forests and gorgeous landscapes. He has scattered every¬ 
where the delicate works of His hands, diamonds in the depths of 
the earth, and pearls in the ocean’s bed, and has set in the blue 
canopy above glorious luminaries forever shining. From the 
varied landscape, from the silver light of morn, and from the 
golden sunset, comes a voice proclaiming the duty of culture. 
Man’s capacities and wants increase with the development of his 
powers. Stultified to savagery, ground-nuts supply him with 
food, and a few withered leaves a pillow for his empty head. Il¬ 
luminated by the light of science and religion, his powers are 
awakened, and with every new impulse comes a new want. Every 
true want is an index of growth. 
To turn the sod, gather the golden harvest, and merely con¬ 
sume or hoard the products of toil will not fill the measure of 
human responsibility. 
Beyond these needful services lies a world of intelligence and 
felicity, and why should not the sons and daughters of farmers- 
possess the highest means of enjoyment? Agriculture alone can¬ 
not furnish these means. The very life of agriculture and all its 
accumulated means of high success, are derived from sources ex¬ 
ternal to itself. Strike mechanism from the world, and the now 
beautiful homes of our farmers and men of wealth are instantly 
reduced to wigwams, and agriculture, as a well defined calling,, 
ceases to exist. Multiply the products of mechanism, the homes 
of laborers are decorated with new attractions, and life, radiant 
with added beauty, possesses new value. 
Thoughtful men, solicitous for the improvement of Mexico, are 
endeavoring to decide upon the best means of introducing into- 
that country a greater variety of industries, believing that such. a. 
movement will hasten her political and social regeneration. 
