GENERAL REPORT. 
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Organization is not only a source of strength; it is also a 
a source of light Its tendency is to bring into the fullest play 
every power of the individual, and stimulate it to the utmost 
extent of its capabilites; its final cause, to combine the indi¬ 
vidual agencies thus developed and concentrate them upon a 
definite object of common interest to all. Liberalizing in its 
influence upon the mind, by reason of the generous sentiment 
in which it has origin, it secures, at the same time, a larger 
advantage to the individual than could come of a more narrow 
and selfish policy. 
So soon as a class of men devoted to the same pursnit in 
life are brought to the point of preferring the permanent ad¬ 
vancement of their profession to their own temporary advant¬ 
age merely, that moment the common cause begins to make 
rapid progress, bringing with it incidentally, but no less cer¬ 
tainly, the higher good of each individual contributor to the 
general result. 
Among the learned professions, so-called, this principle has 
long been recognized. Its fruit is that higher intelligence and 
es'prii de corps which have made them a power among men in 
all civilized lands. 
There must also be among the followers of the industrial 
pursuits a like higher intelligence and a like esprii de corps. 
For the attainment of this end three classes of agencies will 
prove especially potent—associations and societies of practical 
men for the promotion of mutual advantage and the public 
good, boards and commissions established and sustained by 
the government, and educational agencies established and sup¬ 
ported by the government and people conjointly. 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS 
Already exist in this State to a considerable extent, in view of 
its recent organization, but the number could be increased with 
great advantage, and such as exist could be made more 
efficient 
Before the war, there were, besides the State Agricultural 
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