Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-10-13

blers to the next generation. Our people have the
virtue OF abstnence-spending less than they earn
and from every years labor they add something to
their fixed capital All these things may not belong
10 pure science but among facts and the practical arts
they are worthy Of all acceptation.
with so large catalogue Of facts in our favor what
else do we lack? The world moves, and we must
keep pace or be dstanced, We require more thor
ough intellectual training. The mysteries AMI the
charms of Agricultural knowledge should be more
earnestly studied We may be said not yet to have
mastered its alphabet Those who propose to pursue
agriculture for livelihood should be schooed with
some reference to their future wants. The best boy
in the family, who is to be kept at home consecrated
to the old homestead must not get the poorest educa
ton lie will have to compete with the labor-saving
inventions Of mankind-with the advanced thinkers
among farmers and should come forth cad in the armor
specially adapted to his warfare. He needs the cu
ture which makes a thinking man, and should not be
content to be merely machine with periodic motions
1t is possible that nations have died out as often in
consequence Of the deterioration of the so-ts inca
pacity to support any increase of populaton-as from
political causes. We have no Nile and no Ganges to
by their annual overflow the exhaustion pro-
duced by annual cropping What fatness flows in
upon our narrow meadows fearfully wastes our tree
less, hiy pastures where it clngs in vain lngcr
| little longer.
Selfpreservation requires, if we cannot make our
lands fertile, that we should not allow present fertility
to be diminished. There is need of a higher stand
ard of knowledge upon the subject of agricuture-an
eye directed to future prosperity-by which we may
steer clear of the system of the whip and spur and
adopt that of generous feed and attentive grooming
and through which we may hope to leave the world,
ut least, good found it. The gratitude Of
postery and should be secured and that without
ncglecting present profit. The boundaries of the
knowledge required for the successful pursuit of agri-
culture are wider than those of any other profession
and yet, as commonly seen they are only explored
within the narrowest limits. Beyond mere purposes
of utility, the farmer should welcome all sciences re-
lated to agriculture for their wondrous beauty and
their power for intellectual development. They are
his great necessity and should be his greater pleasure
Education, as part of the general plan to fit men
for all conditions of life, requires no advocate before
an American audience. It will be conceded that in
teligence, other things bring equal is now and has
been in all ages the most powerful lever of human
success. Genius is admirable and instinct is marvel
lous but the intelligence the mental vgor, derived
from education is greater than ALL Moses, with
Hebrew heart, in addition to Divine inspirations had
the preparation of fine Egyptian education then the
best in the world and hence his magnificent leader
ships hence that great embodiment of law and NOR
aity, the decaogue hence the sublime poetry of his
two great songs; one of peaing triumph when the
enslavers of his people overthrown and the
other so grandly closing bis most eventfu life. Paul
before his miraculous conversion to Christianity had
enjoyed the Grecian culture of his native city and
the teachings of the removed Gamael at Jerusalem.
In accordance with rule founded in the highest wis.
dom, mark how he also taught the trade of a
tent maker by which in time of need he earned his
own support. To this thorough training of Paul. to
his eoquence and mastery Of the subject, Christian
ity to-day is doubtless indebted for its hold upon
all classes of men than upon the labors of any other
of the apostes-the beloved John not excepted-wth
whatever of reverend affection and faith each and al
, may be regarded.
Although all things are possible with God, yet Di
vine wisdom moves the world through approprat,
means and fixed laws, and while He used Sampson t.
G ehasse the Philistnes He chose Solomon to build NJ
r the gories of his temple
The human race has changed very little from tn
n time of Moses or Paul. To-day man is created as h
, was at the beginning, and his vices and virtues, a
seen in Asia Europe, echoed back by Africa anC
, America and prove his everlasting brotherhood. w
raise horses cattle and sheep of every shape size
# color almost to order Vegetables, fruits and flower
seem. to be fashioned at will by the hand of the sku
n cultivator and the commonest varieties are made il
mere sport to assume qualities Of utility, deicacy AM
o beauty unknown to their normal state. There is
however, no improvement in man-health and posi-
c BILE sports in varieties excepted-rtich can be trans
II nited The highest types of the race in modern day
If find their equals in the past. adam, the goodies
n of men since born" and the first man God made
= was afamer and no son of his has any claim to b
/ considered more perfect Pericles Demosthenes an
r Homer have not been ecpsed If their glory at
7 intervals re-appears, let the world be thankful.
e may be asked "Do You then mean to deny all huma
D progIess? Not at all but do mean to say that M
y ture far from being decrepid yet has not increase
m her vgor, and does no more now than at the begiI
ming and that progress depends more upon the teacl
I'd ings-more upon the nurse as to what language Il
r. child shall speak-than upon the father or the parti
he ulr family. All persons start in the of life
n equals-modifed by individual characteristics Al
gh each one with such help rs Ire get makes /
sss own improvement in his daily growth and educato
mt The first nests made by the oroe and the cedar Li
to preec' the last, but man improves the de
to erty of his hand and the grasp of his intellect by
an own experience well that Of Others, and Il
OF structures and the philosophy of by gone ages ser
rs the spos of the present-not so much to be copC
FOR as excelled. The great advantage Of humanity,
We side of Its hope of Immortality is its power of speeC
e and its capacity teach and to be taught. Throug
to the aid Of a written language and the magic art
no printing there is permanent record of hums
ed thoughts and achievements. The accumulatons
is generations the ruage of the best wits of the worl
handed over to succeeding generations and what ms
ng have cost lifetime to discover may be mastert
a possibly by the boy in n single lesson Stor
he up in the libraries and in Schools learning has
he ennal growth, but like maidens as modest as bea
p- tu, it must be diligently sought after and nev
m comes unbidden The fountain is inexhaustible b
ge each one must smte the rock for himself or it will
f a gush forth.
I'd, So believing it follows that do not coincide wi
ne the idea that Ignorance is bliss" That may do
no despotsms but not for republics Science, literau
Ter and roast beef good for the who lab
nd with their hands for those who make the pen
its powerful than the sword or those who 'weld t
en fierce democracy with eloquent tongues--for I
ks ruled as well rs rulers. Not that knowledge
he Greek roots Latin and mathematical absra
Of tons will make a good farmer, but knowledge
be other things from the very roots Of the extern
i've phenomena Of physical science, as, for instance,
zen vegetable chemistry and physiology, requiring p,
of haps equal amount Of study and more observati
ty to acquire, is necessary to the real farmer and wi