The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-01-11

the practloal anduseluIs But 70 4 bar
barian, who had never seen them, they
would seem wonderfully, deep and
strange. And, certainly, there is not
one Of them, If useful, which does not
depend upon the principles Of strict
est science, and maDy,of them upon tho
most obstruse darkest = principles,
TOO. So Of every other art in the eata-
louguc, up to the newest and strang.
est Tclegraphy and the dagucrreo.
TYPE, at first. amGzed uyall "a abstruse
lsciences. BBt they are fast becoming
household ats. and, IL it be really the
purpose Of tho Legislature, to elevate
| this art Of agriculture by theuse Of the
sciences in collegiate instruction you
may depend upon it that this end can
alone be attained by teaching 10 the
few, not the many, thu most abstruse
Of all the natural seiences-agricuitu-
raj chemistry, for instance. ''The ma.
ny" and "the few, are also relative
terms, but the time never has been
when the many. Compared to man
kind have been taught this knowl-
edge of the principles Of things; ina.
ny" in this sense can never Co. to col.
leges. Nay, more, Of the many, in
the narrow sense, who do 60 to col
lcgt, it is only The few-tle very elect
lew who master the deep abstrnse
root Of the matter. What then? Arc
not the many, thereby, benefited and
blessed? We might as well say that
all who, ignorant Of the principle, de-
rive use or enjoyment from q telegram
or photograph. were under no obliga-
ton to Morse or Daguerre. Upon that
| theory the dull gardner or farmer, who
is incapable of the first proportions of
chemistry, is not indebted to- Prof.
Leibig, whose scientific discovery Of
the needsd manure has increased his
product and his wealth twenty fold.
It is well enough to talk about ina
king two blades Of grass grow where
only one grew BEFORE" but the true
question is: the holc-- the law--to make
il grow into two. and that or a, like
useful and practical result ignorance
meyer devised yet and never viii. And
whenever it shall be dohe, it must be
done by an accordance with the prin-
ciples Of nature, and that knowledge
is science and profoundestscience also,
It must begin all arts and uses After,
ward they will be repeated to tho end
Of generations, in utter ignorance of
the principle (faticnale) of the act
they shall be repeating. +, =. ss.Hrs l,5
So, too, / must tnink his reasoning
in error, in what is said, if / under
stand its full purport, of the instruc-
ton 'rhich pertains 10 their oiCR cali
ihgs.' At least the foundations, ont
Of which the true science and art Of
agriculture, Chat kind of agriculture
oiwhich we are discussing must arise,
are SO many and SO deep, that mere-
Iy special education without very
general scholarship below it, can never
attain 10 it, And, whenever II is de-
tefmined TO give The agriculturalist a
collegiate education, it can only be- 70
the few--itcan only1bc scientifc--and,
finally, il must ascend from the geAer-
al to the special instruction.
Aristocracy, personal, social and po-
litical. is a bad thing. generally aeon
temptible spirit, but it 10 in the nature
Of things that letters is necessarily an
aristocracy. We may rail against the
truth but we can not help ourselves
The Bacons. Newtons, Keplars and
Agassizs of this world can never be
multitude. beg pardon for alllthose
truisms, TO some. But are they not
stoutly denied? And are they not in
eontestible not merely true, but the es-
sence of the controversy 1 conclude
this part of the topic with butone more
remark. When We have determined
upon the policy of educating
farmers in colleges or universi-
ties, we have passed the point of most
of these discussions That determina-
tion establishes our choice of o liberal
education, and liberal education means,
itself.
Upon the question Of manual labor,
involved in this subject, l am less clear.
Our reason, experience and prejudices
seen all at fault in relation to it. This
much, however, is reasonable in my
Judgment, viz: that there is no use in
either colleges or schools to teach the
mere manual dexteritics of Agricul.
ture, rs plowing, boeing, sDading,
chopping and the rest, but it is the in
telligence of the principle to be work
cd at and wrought out, which this
education is TO impart. As much man
nal labor ut lcasi, must be maintainedJ
as will serve definitely and familiary,
to illustrate & put into visible practice,
with lis results, the scientific truth,
new or old upon which they must rest.
Some correspondence has been held
between the late Governor and those
of other States, in regard to COM,
mon principle of action in the dispo-
si.ioh Of this scrip; and various sug-
gestions have been made to me, by
private individuals, for some plan by
which could be sold it larger qnanti,
ties than by retailing to individual
purchasers. But none Of these confer
enccs have developed into any plan
worthy of calling your attention to-
them. This subject of the proper dis
position of the scrip is commended TO
your consideration, t-...i
PAY AGENTS.
The, gross amount of allotment.mo-
ney received by these agents from Ohio
soldiers. and paid i1to the Treasury,
! is SIS, ,4G5, ,7O2 80, of which. as has al.