Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-04-12
From the Cultivator.

HINTS TO YOUNG FARMERS.-CUL-
TURE OF THE MIND.-You know well,
that one piece of land, a garden for in
stance, yields vastly more than another
piece OF ground of equal natural fertility.
And you know equally we'll, that one man
abounds more in knowledge and useful
ness, than another to whom nature has
been alike bountiful 1t is cuIture-it is
the industry and perseverance of man,
exerted in one case, and not in the other.
that produces the marked contrast in both.
The cuItlvetor is sure to be rewarded, in
his harvests, for the care and labor which
he bestows upon his soil; and the reward
is no less certain to him who devotes his
leisure hours to the culture of his mind
The soil administers to our animal wants.
knowledge not only greatly assists in
supplying these wants, but is the primary
source Of Intellectual wealth, which dol
lars alone cannot give, and, when consort-
ed with good habits, tends to refine, ele-
vate and distinguish men above their fell
lows. Talent is not hereditary. You
will see, on looking around, that most of
the distinguished men of our country have
sprung from humble or obscure parent
age. They are indebted for present dis
tinction to the culture which they have
themselves bestowed upon their minds
The road to usefulness and honorable dis
tlnction is equally open to you, and the
time has arrived when you must decide,
whether you will compete for the noble
prize.
If you wish to be prosperous in your
business know, and to profit by, the
Improvements of the age-cultivate your
mind-for this is the great labor-saving
machine. If you wish to See your chill
dren intelligent, thriving and respected,
teach them, by example, to cultivate the
mind. If you would be useful to your
friends, and merit the confidence and es-
TEEN of your neighbors, seek early to
qualify yourselves for the duties of social
life, by the culture of the mind. If you
aspire to intellectual cnJoyments, which
flow from the study of the material world
from the order, harmony and beauty,
which NEE: us in every walk, in the man
fold and wonderful works of the Creator
cultivate the mind. In fine if YOU
would prosper in your business, in your
family and in society, cultivate the mind.
But knowledge is not always wisdom
and therefore, be as scrupulous in regard
to your studies, as you are in regard to the
seed which you deposit in the soil. You
Will reap whatever you sow; and the
mind is as liable to be numbered with
weeds as is the soil Read, therefore,
whatever tends to instruct YOU in YOUR
business, to establish in you good habits,
and to fit you for the res onsible duties of
life. Acquaint yourselves with the inven-
tons and Improvements of modern att
Make yourselves acquainted with the
general facts of science, with the won
drous laws by which the Almighty GOV
ems all around us; and with the endless
illustrations of these laws, in the world |
and in all its parts. The facts of natural
history will afford abundant matter for
agreeable and useful knowledge. The !
p lants, the animals, the minerals, the soils,
OF your country and of other countries.
the changes Of the seasons; the make and
composition of all that surrounds von
duly observed, and made the subject If
reading, OF conversation, of reflection
will al once store your mind, and raiso
your ideas of the wisdom and goodness If
Him. who, it will soon be perceived, has
made all things by number, weight and
measure" The study of your own frame
your bodily make and constitution nav
be made an object at once OF interest. in.
struction and benefit. Early may Won he
brought to perceive, in the very constitu-
lion Of your own bodies, much of your
duty eujoined by Him who formed Won
such as you are. Temperance, selfSov-
eminent, moderation, avoidance of all
abuse Of the body. are written in the very
make OF the body ITSELF And il twill hence
plainly appear, that when our Maker
'ays, abstain from all incompetence, from
Ill Impurlty, he docs but say, do thyseld