The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-02
The Anti-AGon0polist.

resentatives for every department, it is
only when the people become ignorant
and corrupt when they degenerate into
populace that they are incapable of ex-
ercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is
then an easy attainment and usurper
soon found. The people themselves be-
come willing instruments to their own
defusement and ruin.
EXTRACTS FROM A LECTURE BY J. J.
MEcHlE.
From the Mark Lane Expressly
At recent meeting at Chelmsford,
under the auspices of the Essex and
Chelmsford Museum, Mr.. Lechi deliver.
ed the following lecture:
We shall all, think, agree that the
most important of all the arts is that of
producing food. Those who doubt it
should go without their meals tor a
week, and they would soon come to
more sound conclusion. This art, pre-
vious to this century, was here and else
where merely empirical or experimental.
Effects were seen, but causes were I'M
known. The calf growing and thriving
on its mothers milk seemed quite natur
al, but nobody knew what made its bones,
and that if there had been no bone earth
in the soil which produced the plant
food of the COW the animals could have
had no bone in fact no existence, or a
very rickity, imperfect one. Rickety
children owe their imperfectlon to the
use offood deficient in bone earth (phos-
- 80 rpso~l
whose, wife had twins, told me
that the babes would not thrive on Lon
don milk. but grew famously when they
took the genuine Swiss milk, in tins.
This was a comparatively recent affair.
Science explains all this-without science
effects are seen Gotten too late). but
causes are unknown. In 1920, Sir Hum
phrey Davev, and in 1910 Baron Liebig,
first gave to agriculture scientific basis.
would strongly recommend. not only
to agriculturist. but as book for every
library, "Liebig's Familiar Letters on
Chemistry" as a profitable means Of
greatly enlarging knowledge and stimu-
lating thought for that great man not
only treats abundantly of agriculture but
numerous other subjects of vast interest.
have in my library his works as fol-
lows: (D. Chemistry in its Applica-
ton to Agriculture and Physiology" (2)
Principles of Agricultural Chemistry !;
(3), Letters on Modern Agriculture, az
.'The Natural Laws of Husbandry," ().
Familiar Letters on Chemistry" But
what is science? Is it not perception.
observation, comparison, reflection, and
inductive reasoning. with view to truth
full conclusion? Newton, on seeing the
apple fall from tree, asked himself
| why it did not go up instead OF down.
| and then arose our astronomical know
| ledge. So it was With Galilieo and our
revolving globe, and Torricell; and the
diameter. Water, the least compress
sible of any Substance, when converted
into steam, becomes more compressible.
Somebody who saw and reflected upon
its power when lifting the lid OF the
bubbling pot or kettle, applied that
power to most important uses and me-
chanical science, thanks TO Watt, Steph-
enson, Fowler, Arkwright. and other
philosophers, who have given US mil
lions of willing, but unsuffering and I'M
firing slaves, which labor night and day
for our use, comfort and profit. Harvey,
by reflection, discovered the circulation
OF our blood. Jenner preserved human
life and beauty by observation, reflection
and inductive reasoning. Formerly a
beautiful woman might in a few weeks,
become plain or hideous from small pox
In my early days most persons were
more or less dishgured by it Jenner
asked himself which class OF society, or
which trade or occupation. was most free
from this pest, and he found that dairy
maids generally escaped. Then he ask
ed himself Why, and ascertained that
when milking, il they had q cut or in-
Jury on the fingers or hand. the pimple
or peck on the cows udder caused a
similar outbreak on the wound, and so
we got cow peck vaccination. This was
the science. and blessed science too,
but how fiercely it was opposed and dis
believed! remember seeing. in carica-
lures, cows heads, cows horns. cows
f,ces. all shown on paper as result
ing from introducing this COW disease
into human frame. Time and truth,
however, at length prevailed, and when
We are no longer shocked and panied as
We used to be. Franklin brought down
lightning from the clouds, and now, il
the Emperor of China happens to have
4 lit OF sneezing, Ii ghtniug brings it BY
telegram to our breakfast table mex,
morning in the steam printed sheet-el-
ectrical science aad steam have all bu,
annihilated time and space Everything
natural is done well aud wonderfully
without the aid man, but our effort.
should be directed to inquire how they
are so well and perfectly done. Hap
PLY. chemical analysis and philosophie
sagacity at last enlightened US. Liebie
justly says. in his dedication to The Bnt.
ish Association of his Chemistry in il
Application to Agriculture and Phys:ci
ology," .'But it is not the mere practi
cal utility OF these truths which is Of
import ance. Their influence upon men
tai culture is mos. beneficial; and the
new views acquired by the knowledge
OF them enable the mind to recognise. II
the phenomena of nature, proofs of an
infinite wisdom. tor the unfathomabls
profundity of which language has mock