The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-29
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WHOLE NUMBER S54.

back has never deceived you, but q
ri bogus or counterfeit one did q gen
uine American dollar has never de-
ceived you, but bogus one did. So
is is with science-geuuine science
does not deceive, whilst bogus sci
ence does Science made the rail.
roads; made the telegraph; laid the
Atlantic Gable, by means of which q
message can be sent from California
to St Petersburg, il Russia, and an
answer be returned the same day
think of that A message sent ten
thousand miles and an answer re-
TUNED within twenty-iour hoursl Is
there any deception or humbug about
that A man may leave Boston, the
'shub'' of the American wheel of
smartness, and go to San Francisco,
in California, and pass over every
inch of the distance in railway car
in less than ten days, distance of
not much less than 4 900 miles That
this is done by and through science,
no one can successfully deny. Sci
enee made reapers and mowers; sci
ence made tie art of printing; sci
ence made steamboats, and steam
ships to cross the vide Atlantic in
less than ten days SCIENCE made the
watch you have in your pocket; sci
ence prepares textile fabrics, so that
You may be dressed in purple and
ine linen and fare sumptuOIsly every
day, bringing to your door not only
the Tyrian dyes, but ali and every
one OF oriental luxusies in which re-
tined civilization chooses to revel.--
Civilization and science go hand in
hand. Civilization could not exist
!. sin gle hour ii there were no science.
becanse civilization is based and
foli d ID tpon science. What is sci
e1ce, then, of which so much is said?
[ answer, simply, Science is knowl-
edge. Youask, What is knowledge?
I answer, / anOwledge is experience.
Science, then, is experience. Sci
enee is simply well arranged or
digested system OF facts ascertaiaed
by experience. We cannot possibly
have any knowledge without expert
ence. We may have much leorning
without having any knowledge what
ever rts a..J g. .s-sI-l
1t is this miscomprehension of terms
which leads many persons to object to
the establishment of an agricultural
college; they appear to have an idea
that nothing practical is or can be
taught; that everything which IS
taught is stheoretical, land not practical.
Now this term, THEORY, is just as much
misinterpreted and misunderstood as
the term science. Yon no doubt under
Staud by a Theoretical man, one who
knows nothing of practical life or OF
the everyday affairs cf life; in a word,
you regard theory IS equivalent to
motion, p or "idsG," or with something
that has not been demonstrated; when
the fact is there is nothing more de-
monstrable or practical than THEORY.
Theory is nothing more nor less than
careful summary or digest of well
ascertained facts. Arithmetic, as
taught in schools, is theory; algebra
is theory Geometry is theory all the
branches of mathematics are nothing
more nor less than pure theory, and
yet they are the most practical, sure
and certain thing in the world. You
know very well that eclipses may be
predicted to half a second of time,
more than a hundred years in advance
OF the time of occurrence. The eclipse
of the sun which took place last month
was calculated in l792-because L
have a book printed in 1898, in which,
all the elements, as well as the pre-
else time and route, so to say, OF the
eclipse are recorded Of course this
calculation was purely theoretical;
bat don't you see it is also very prac-
teal? Theory is the compass, while
practice is the ship or vessel. We
can not cross the ocean an the COM
pass, but it is not very probable that
we could cross the ocean in vessel
without compass. Therefore, theory
and practice must 90 hand in hand,
for the one is of 10 value without the
other.
/ am exceedingly anxious tosee the
agricultural college established and in
good hands. l have nc desire nor any
intention to be connected with the in
stitution myself. The professors must
be able men-each one thoroughly
master of the department in which he
engages / am self-taught- | have
never for day even had the opportu-
nifty of studying in an academy or col
lege and, as | understand 1T, all the
professors in the collegemust be grad
yates of respectable Institutions of
learning. am not graduate, and
therefore am not eligible for any posi-
ton in it. wish this fully understood,
so that those having the power may
90 on and establish the college without
ann one having occasion to fear that it
is to be an establishment for aay benefit.
I'nt- entertain great hopes OF the
institution. when pro- erly organized,
and conducted by a competent corps
of professors and teachers. Liebig
saws that lands have increased 800 per
cent. in Germany since scientific agri-
culture has been introduced. One
thin q * certain. the college will not
cause thel lands to be less valuable than
they are now; and the probabilities
are that the geological survey and the
agricultural college, both together,
will furnish data from which the real
productive value of the lands can at
least be approximately computed
Germany has found herself well repaid
for establishing agricultural colleges
and stations. Her agTi-
calturists are among her very best
scholars and statesmen; the produc-
tiveness of the soil has been very
greatly increased, and new industries
have sprung up in consequence.
Now. if Germany may be proGted
three hundred fold by the advent and
application OF science, is it not proba
Bile that we may at least reap some
benefit by it? Look at the vast amount
of topics on which we are very igno-
rant, comparatively What do we
know ofve9etabie physiology, or the
nature of plantsg Some have studied
the nature of plants to sach a profound
extent they verify believe that wheat
turns TO cheat or chess? would ike
10 ask these same wiseacres where all
the 'suAite lsesd7 came from winch we
found in the meadows and cultivated
lands during the summer OF 1907
n;1.ko,~..,1,,, from, 'rya OATS. barley.