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son and law, and in the human family, as some “ Providential ar¬ 
rangement ” that we mortals have little to do with as results. 
“Know thyself! ” is advice ever pressed home by experience; 
and yet no part of God’s creation is so much neglected by scien¬ 
tific philanthropists in their search for ill’s remedies. Man, as an 
organic being, having functions subject to law in precisely like re¬ 
lations as the whole animal kingdom, is practically ignored; 
seeming to forget that to be “ well born ” is possible, while to be 
u born again ” is at least problematical, and that the conditions for 
good, noble offspring are equally in our keeping with at least our 
domestic animals, and ever will be neglected, until there is an 
aroused consciousness that “ human improvement” is the “corner 
stone ” of all true progress. Hence in some fitting manner this 
should be recognized as a legitimate theme for discussion in an 
organization devoted to bettering the conditions of life. 
I will offer no resolution or further suggestion, but commit this 
hint, as in trust, hoping some resolution from your influential body 
may help to widen the conviction that our bodies should be made 
“ fit temples for the Holy Ghost to dwell in,” and that we can so 
make them. 
TRANSPORTATION AND MANUFACTURING. 
BY T. J. EATON, MONROE. 
Written for State Agricultural Convention, February, 1874. 
When any great evil exists it is the common error of mankind 
to look for a remedy in a single direction. When the emmigrants 
were crowded out of the more densely populated districts of the 
older states and found homes in the northwest, where the virgin 
soil only awaited the plow share to reward the husbandman with 
the most bountiful crops, when they had been accustomed to see 
more than a half a lifetime spent in preparing the soil for the plow, 
the most natural result was that the whole country was supplied 
with a superabundance of food, with the prospect that each new 
comer would add largely thereto. After trying the expedient of 
carting their surplus products to the nearest point of water comu- 
nication with the manufacturing districts of the older states and 
