Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-02-09

| -. :" '"c hcFculean efforts that were made
during the war, and the lamentable failures
| .'iat arose from want of knowledge and skilled
labor, skill only secured by the fostcrip,
haha OF patronage and never ceasiug and Ion.
continued special education.
have seen for the third of century Won
'audabie efforts in the cause of agriculture
and know how little you have cfI, ttrJ
huVe been witness to the wonderful ,1v,poo
snent OF civilized Europe and the North, !,
wy S'',e cause, IN the comparatively shor
period of decade but the immense str;da.
made III the progress Of agriculture clsewbcr,
have not resulted from few spasmodic efinrt,
OF isolated individuals or societies nor h,s !,
been accomplished by colossal universities
whose comprehensive routine has. however
its merits. The time honorcd universities .;
Oxford and Cambridge, in England. The
Soroohhe >1 anu College of France, in Paris
Meitmcr the Universities of Berlin, Gottingen,
eie'd,ehcrg ct om"e gcnus, in Germany were
'ou"n inadIcguatc to national requirements,
ana spcc'al institutions have been created, or
g"n'zed and endowed, for special purposes,
ana not engratted" upon old stocks, whose
sphere OF usefulness was quite different. The
usefulness OF special institutions has been so
MANIFEST, that their multiplication has amount
ed to kind of revival in education thron,h-
out the civilized world, with the execution
of the South
The Ecolc Polytecnicque, 50 celebrated, in
far's' Is at best but preliminary school, ard
preparatory to other schools for specific cdu-
c"''on' lhc course of studies taught there
arc h'gh' 1t IS true, but the student has but
commenced his scientific structure there, and
goes from that into other special schools,
~hcre the same sciences are pursued with
special application. Thus, Chemistry Is ne
eessary to enter the Polyiecnique. Chemis-
Try is taught in the Polytccnique, and Chem.
,ssfry is taught in the Imperial School of
Mines, to which the Polyteonique is prepara-
former, MS either to Tint which is ri ~. ,.'"s"qht
school OF medicine, OF e., tho Gdbciihs upon
dycng, as at the Impcr;alf gricultural Schoo,
mt Grignon. Division of labor, and special
schools, have become essential to the require
mcnts of the times in. which we live, hence
the progress in this age of advancing civiliza,
ton.
1t is only since the establishment of special
schools, aud associations, for the advancement
of science, that agriculture has made such
extraordinary strides ininercaacd production
Oxford and Cambridge have their sphere for
utility. But those institutions, as renowned
as they justly are, would have failed to pro.
duce the revolution in the. arts which has
been so manifest in England since the estab.
lshment other veterinary colleges, her muse,
ums of chrononic mincralogy and geology
her chemical assocations,. her, chemical lee
lures rs varied as they are variously applied
her Glasncrrin Agricultural School, her'Tem
plcmcylc, Brook,iela, Ealing institutions ant
her celebrated Agricultural College at Circn
ccstcr. I will venture here to assert that thu
special schools of Agriculture presided ovc
by Mcssrs. Gilbert and Laws, or that by Lie
big, has done more for agriculture and ciyi
lization generally, within the short period o
their establishment than Oxford and Cam
bridge ever have done, or ever will do. in al
future time, without a, change ci'mcs owe
their instructions. base my opinion :upoi
the broad assertion that civilization only ad
vanccs through the sciences, and. that th'
wrctched backwardness of agriculture, and al
the arts that should accompany civilization
is the lack ofspecal scientific schools through
out the South, and it will ever continue, SC
long as we are not awakened to- this necessity
There may be poor comfort in that opinion
for the present generation, but we are dealing
with facts, the past is gone, but the State
| lives forever.
Seven years ago Germany had no less thar
three hundred schools where the sciences wer,
taught. with special purpose of bcncfttins
agriculture, and they have gone on ncrcasing
| speak independently of her other scientific
schools, for the development of natural re
sources, and independently of her far fame'
universities. III
ask in all candor what the German pub
| a. do ~ q
Diet to "engraft" tho school of Mines, Q
! hfreyberg, Saxony, or that Of An5Teasbsf
upon the University ofBerlin, ,ot Heidelberg
or proposition made, 2 Parliament to en-
graft" the Agricultural School ,of Cirer
cestcr, upon the University Of, Oxford, Q
Cambridge, or the Agricultural School
Grignon, upon the Sorbornne 1t would t
my mind be as sequent, to give subriety te
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