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It is not enough that the farmer toils early and late in the 
tasks of the field. He must every day learn better how to 
work , if he would really thrive. Agricultural science is not, 
as ignorant prejudice sneeringly avers, a matter of idle theory 
or of vagrant speculation. Writers do not spin their teachings 
from their brains, as the silkworm spins its thread from its 
bowels ; but, by finding out and studying the phenomena of na¬ 
ture, and comparing with facts in daily experience, genius and 
learning evolve their lessons of practical wisdom. The glory 
and strength of man is in his faculties rather than his muscles. 
Confidently as we are accustomed to rely upon our boasted 
arms and hands, and strong physical forces, deprived of the 
inventions of genius and the devices of intelligence we now 
possess, how unequal should we be to the accustomed tasks of 
a single day ! As a merely brute force man is about the most 
helpless creature that moves ; by intellectual supremacy, he is 
the governor of animals, and may command all the forces of 
nature. Ye, who esteem man’s glory to consist in hard hands 
and brawny arms, and not in his teeming brain, throw aside all 
the inventions of genius and devices of intelligence in familiar 
use, and try those arms and hands at the most common task of 
labor ! Prepare this field for sowing—or fell a single tree of 
yonder forest, and convert it into any one of a hundred familiar 
uses for human comfort and convenience ! What are you with¬ 
out tools ? The ore sleeps far down in the mine—the coal lies 
hid in the mountain—and whispering from creation’s dawn, in 
a language learned only by genius and study, are the laws of 
refining, purifying and combination, by which the first rude 1 
material of the axe and the plow' are formed. The treasures of 
the earth are sought out and brought to light, the Jaws of nature 
heard and translated for human instruction, and every form and 
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