The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-01-10


all his judgments and to distrust my
own, when they CHANGED to be differ
ent. Nevertheless, upon the subject
of the grant, aud the institution contem-
plated by it, am bound, if | under
stand them, to dissent from certain
parts OF his reasonings and their con-
clusiou in his last message.
He seems to labor under a great |
difficulty (Which does not exist,) upon
the old question of sacrifice, 10 the |
educational establishments, of the prac-
teal and the useful, to the scientific
and abstruse parts and principals OF
education. 1t does seem to me that
there need be no such conflict, and
consequently can be no sacrifice
There can ba no proper or successful
practice or utility in anything deser-
wing the name Of an art; which does
not as directl y grow out of science,
knowledge of principles,) as simply
and directly as limbs, leaves, flowers
aud fruit grow from their proper roots,
scientific" and "abstruse" are relative
terms, and they more frequently denote
our degree of ignorance and unfamill-
arity with tleir subjects than their own
intrinsic difficulty or impracticableness.
The simple usage of the common far
mer, for example, we call the practical
and useful. But to barbarian, 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 strictest seence, and lnaay
of them upon the most abstruse-'iark-
est principles, too. So; OF every 9TH
er art in the catalogue, up TO the new
est and straugest. Telegraphy and the
daguerreotype, at first, amazed us all
rs abstruse sciences. But they are fast
becoming household arts, and, if it be
really the purpose of the Legislature to
elevate this at of agriculture by the
use of the sciences in collegiate in
struction, you may depend upon it that
this end can alone be attained by teach
ing, to the few, not the mauy, the most
abstruse of all the natural scienoes-ag-
ricultural chemistry, for instance
''The many" and 'the few" are also
relitive terms, but the time never has
been when the many, compared to
mankindO have been taught this knowl-
edge OF the principles of things;
"many," in this sense, can never 30 to
colleges. Nay, more, of the many, in
the narrow sense, who do go to college,
it is only the few-the very elect few
who master the deep abs,ruse root of
the matter. What then? Are not the
many, thereby, benefited and blessed?
We might as we'll say that all who, =
noraut Of the principle, derive use or
enjoyment from telegram or photo
graph, were under no obligation to
Morse or Daguerre. Upon that theo-
ry the dull gardener or farmer, who is
incapable OF the first proportions OF
chemistry, is not Indebted to Prot.
Liebig, whose scientific discovery OF
the needed manure has increased his
product and his wealth twenty told.
II is well enough to talk about "ma-
king two blades OF grass grow where only
', one grew BEFORE" but the tue ques-
ii n is: the hoeo the law-to make it
grow into two, and that or like useful
and practical result; ignorance never
devised yet and never will. And when.
ever ii shall be done, it must he done
by al accordance with the principles OF
nature, and that knowledge is science
and proi0unlest science also. 1t must
b"gin all arts aud uses. Afterward
they will be repeated to the end Of
generations, in utter ignorance of the
principle (rationalel Of toe act they
shall be repeating.
SO, too, must think his reasoning in
error, in what is said, if understand
its tull purport,of the instruction "achjch
pertains to their oaoa calIings." AT
least the foundations, out Of which the
true science and art OF agriculture,
(that kind Of agriculture OF which we
are discussing,) must arise, are so many
and SO deep, that merely special ed
ucation without very general schol-
, arship below it, can never attain to it.
And, whenever it is determined to give
the agriculturist colIegiate educatiou,
it can only be TO the tew-it n ouly
be scientifc-and, finally, it must as.
cend r m the general TO the special in-
!, struction.
Aristooracy, personal, social and po-
litical, is bad thing, generally con-
temptible spirit, but it is in the nature
of things that letters is necessarily an
aristocracy. We may rail against the
truth but we can not help our Selves
The Bacons, Newtons, K"plars and
Agass,zs OF this world can never be O
multitude. l beg pardon for all these
trulsms, to some. But are they not
incontestlble not merely true, but the
escence of the controversy? | conclude
this part of the tophic with but one
more remark. When we have deter.
mined upoa the policy of educating far
!, mers in colleges or universities, W,
, have passed the point OF most of thes,
discussions. That determination est.b
= fishes our choice OF liberal education
> means, itself.
Upon the question of manual labor
involved IN tnis sab bjeot, | am less clear
Our reason, experience ana preJudlce'
! seem all at fault in relation TO it. Thi
= much, however, is reasonable in III,
:. judgment, viz: that there is no use il
J, either colleges or schools 10 teach tn,
!. mere manual dexteritips of agriculture
" " as plowmg, hoeing, spadiug, choppiul
y and the rest, but it is the inteligenc,
OF the principle to be worked at ant
wrought out, which the the education
Q is to impart. AS much manual labo
g at least must be malniined as will scrv
Il definitely and tamiliarly, to exempllfy
IS illustrate and put into visible practice
j. with its results, the scientific truth, new
] or old. upon which they must rest.