Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1842-08-26
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the responsibility Of this or that profession. bu
i, viii avail little or nothing, unless that pro-
fession is taught to respect itself, to understand
lis true position aud its claims, and true means
| cf enforcing them. No man Of sense can de.
ny that the profession Of agriculture is one Of
the most honorable, useful, aud indispensable:
that it is the eldest of the arts. and should
other things being e4ual-entitle those who
practice i. to the front rank in society. To
what then is ii to be attributed that the farmer
has been kept 10 the back ground, and by what
courtesy have been called the learned profess
ions, allowed to take the precedence in all pub.
| lie matters, even to the legislation on topics
which interest the farmer almost exclusively,
and which be does, and should understand
better than any one else! This question We
have never seen more satisfactorily answered
| than in an address delivered at Grenada. Miss
! by A. G. Game, Esq, before a meeting con-
vened to devise the ways and means of build
ing and endowing college at tina, place, and
for copy Of which we ATE indebted TO the au-
| thor. From this address we shall make few
extracts. confident the truths they contain will
commend them to the readers Of the Culiiva-
tor:
81 confess it is one Of the most lamentable
marks otsthe present and preceding ages, that
it is deemed unnecessary to educate mans
son for farmer. If one Of family is to be
educated, he is not designed to till the soil /;
but is to be placed in learned profession.
Why is not ,iling the earth a profession AS
LEARNED, and as useful. and as honorable, as
any on the globe! Because you degrade it.
Every boy whom you educate, you instill n-
to him the belief that he is above the calling
of his father. You teach him that the cult
walton Of the earth is servile. But educate
him for this great employment; talk to them
CT lis usefulness and nobility while they are
boys: and my word for it, the next generation
will not have passed away until the profession
Of planter will be learned profession. And
you will see the young, the generous, the tai
en'ed, age and ambition, pressing into it with
the same eagerness tina, they crowd what is at
This day called the liberal profession. \
1t is one Of the most astonishing, but tolerated
errors, in the history of n ankind, that it should
be unnecessary to educate S farmer. Why,
the cultivation Of the soil was the first employ
ment! II IS condition Of his existence, and
requires a high order Of mind TO manage it
successfully And it is fatal mistake thai,
has degraded the mass of intellect for centu-
ries, to suppose that farmer need no, be edu-
Gated. Ii is essential no man can fill that
high station and digniiy--that first Office with
in the Gift Of his Maker-with honor to him
self, benefit to his race, and glory to his God,
wihou, an education-Withou, some pro6cien-
cy in the science Of human happiness. he
ought to be instructed in the physical sciences,
and he ought 10 be able 10 analyZe his soil.
and tell you its composition; and the effect
upon g wen production, of the excess or alb
sence Of given constituents. He should be
good political economist He should under
stand The law of production, consumption of
distribution, Of supply and demand. Every
man should deem his son actually disqualified
for this noble employment, until he has at
leas, learned this much"
Let such sentiments as are inculcated In
this address, become prevalent at the south,
and they will offer sure guarantee against
opinions which are most ruinous and destruc-
tive against the idea that all labor is OF ne
cessity servile and degrading. Teach man
kind tina, there is such a thing as honest In
duslgy, honorable and useful; that success In
any pursuit, involves knowledge, research,
thought, education, and you do much to abase
preludces, and smooth the way for further
conqne5ts and acquisitions from the domains
of error. Let i, never be forgotten, however,
that learning is net education, and that they
are not always associated in the same lndivld-
ua. Learning oa.y furnishes the means OF
Education; it is not education itself. Gifted
minds, close observers of men and things, are
frequently among the bes; educated men, while
their p.elensions TO learning are small. II Is
enough to name as examples of such as Benz.
franklin, Roger Sherman and Jesse buel.-
Cultivaror.