The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-10
The Unfolding of Industrial. Ideas.

The creative power of the Almighty has
never been exercised without purpose. The
whole universe, in which man lives and has his
being, is guided in its harmonious operations
by system of unvarying laws; and the supe-
rior intellect, with which he was endowed was
doubtless given for the purpose of enabling
him to ascertain what those are, and how they
might be applied to his various wants. 1t is in
this that education properly consists, and, to
the misdrection of the mental powers, may be
attributed the long night of Intellectual dark
ness which brooded over the world during the
early and middle ages.
For ages, mankind seems to have had but
slight conception of the laws upon which the
universe was constructed, and, instead of di-
rectng his energies to domestic improvement,
he was principally occupied, in pree!yn1g upon
his neighbors. Hence the glory which encir-
contempt in which almost all other vocatons
were held. The principal sciences were uncul-
tivated Agriculture and the manufactures
were carried on in the crudest manner; and the
! ambitious youth saw no other road to fame ex-
cept through the CORY fields of war.
In the course OF time better appreciation
of his relations to the world aroused him and
the purposes for which he was created dawned
upon mankind, and the result has been total
change in the civilized world. This change is
too conspicuous to be dwet upon here, for
every child knows that he is surrounded with
appliances which only short time ago would
have been considered as the work Of magic
1t is strange how slow we are, as mass, in
falling into this march of progress. Most of
our institutions of learning are carried on upon
most begin his education anew if he desires
f1,oo hopa oc
new order of institutions, however, is spring.
up around US, institutions in which agriculture
and mechanics are scientifically taught and
theories practically applied institutions in
which labor is elevated to its proper dignity,
and in which the pupil is prepared both phys
ically and mentally, to grapple with the reali-
ties of life, and to win his way to fame and for
tune in any part of the wide world.
1t is shame that such large proportion of
the young men of our country can be satisfied
with pitiful clerkships and other vocations, in
which the mind is dwarfed and health impair
ed, and in which only subsistence can be
made, while so many sources of profitable em-
ployment are inviting them to an honest and
honorable independence. We long to see the
day when it will be difficult to find occupants
for petty clerkships of every character, instead
of having applicants by the hundreds for every
do iS HOW tu6 CtoC IL ouCL st iSouIt
can be reached, and our people taught to work
for themselves, instead of experimenting the
work of others, the cry about the scarcity of
labor will not be heard in the land and every
barren hill will bloom with fields of waving
grain.
: The disposition to look upon farm labor as
ungenteel is too prevalent throughout the
Southern country. Agriculture is no longer
dull routine of daily work, but a science,
which affords full scope for the development
of the intellect. Progress in this department
of late years has been almost Incredible
Science hns guided the farmer not only in the
cultivation of the soil, but in the manufacture
of his implements, and the result is wonder
full increase in the yield of the soil, and labor
which, a few years ago, not dreamed could ever
be attained. The Agricultural Colleges, Socie-
ties and State Bureaus established throughout
the country, will eventually elevate farm labor
to its proper standard of dignity and gentility,
and there will not then be such an exodus of
young men from the country to the cities in
search OF respectable employment.-U Union and
american,