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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
“ She shall be sportive as the fawn 
That, wild with glee, across the lawn 
Or up the mountain springs; 
And her’s shall be the breathing balm, 
And her’s the silence and the calm 
Of mute, insensate things. 
“The floating clouds their state shall lend 
To her; for her the willow bend ; 
Nor shall she fail to see, 
E’en in the motions of the storm, 
Grace that shall mould the maiden’s form, 
By silent sympathy. 
“The stars of midnight shall be dear 
To her; and she shall lean her ear, 
In many a secret place, 
Where rivulets dance their wayward round, 
And Beauty, born of murmuring sound, 
Shall pass into her face.” 
But that the mental condition reacts upon the physical, is a 
proposition so well established that it needs no proof. Confir¬ 
mations of it are in our daily experience; observations of it 
are continually before our eyes, so that to think of it, is to 
admit it. And yet how often is it left entirely out of thought 
in the arrangements made for those most sensitive to its neg¬ 
lect. That the mysterious interdependence of the material and 
immaterial, which every one acknowledges, and no one ex¬ 
plains, should be more direct, and a regard to it more essential 
in early than in latter life, needs but a moment’s reflection. 
In the early, and during all the growing years of the animal 
body, its whole texture is more delicate and impressible than in 
the maturity of its strength. If this is true in regard to food, 
temperature, and clothing, how much more in reference to 
those influences that operate upon it through the ever active 
thought? 
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The way in which this can be most readily done, is by keep¬ 
ing a variety of agreeable objects before the eye; since, of all 
the senses, sight is the principal one through which things 
material impress the mind; the qualities of matter, by which 
