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STATE AGKICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
Are any friends of the cause still dissatisfied with the legis¬ 
lative decision, the incontrovertible argument of necessity 
should reconcile them to it. 
But there were other and higher considerations than this 
that should have brought that decision—and which did chiefly 
determine it in the minds of some—even though the question 
of funds had, in no form, been before them. The idea of a 
mere agricultural school, distinct and isolated, was a too nar¬ 
row one, born of prejudice—one, therefore, that needed to be 
rooted out of the mind of every American citizen, and, if pos¬ 
sible, hept out of the mind of every farmer’s and mechanic’s 
son in the land. The industrial classes are too much cramp¬ 
ed, fettered and blinded already by narrow and foolish notions 
of an essential antagonism between the different classes of so¬ 
ciety, and between the different departments in the world of 
letters, science and the arts. They have not yet stood up¬ 
on a plane of intelligence high enough to see that the real in¬ 
terests of any class are so wisely and beautifully inwoven with 
the interests of every other that, practically, the good of one is 
the good of all. They have not yet learned that great, yet 
simple, lesson, the essential harmony and unity of all truths, so 
that it is philosophically and absolutely impossible for any 
man to know the whole of any one thing until he has gained 
the mastery of all things. 
To eradicate all these false notions and prejudices, they 
need to be educated, not narrowly in an agricultural school, 
whose halls are strangers to every other teaching but such as 
is supposed to have immediate and almost exclusive applica¬ 
tion to this pursuit, but in a broad and noble university, where 
the love of all knowledge, and of knowledge as knowledge^ 
without regard to the dollars and cents that can be got out of 
it to-day, is fostered—where all departments of learning are 
equally honored—where the relations of each to every other 
are understood and taught—where the students and teachers 
devoted to each and all branches of learning, whether science^ 
language, literature, or philosophy, or any combinations of 
