The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-06
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

1t is now six thousand years, since
Adam was driven from the Garden
commissioned from Heaven to be
come a "tiller of the SOIL" and al
though "tilling the soip' is the first
and oldest vocation known to man
vet, Science has been allowed to cast
less light on Agriculture, than almost
any other useful calling known te
the world. Why should this be SO?
Why is it SO? Is "soil tilling any
less honorable, any less useful than
the foremost of the professions OIL
callings engaged in by man? Nay
but may we not safely assert, that il
is not only the Oldest, but the mos
important and useful to the World oil
them alp From the "dust Of the
Earth" we date our origin, physically
and there our physical existence ends
From it, all created matter comes
and to it returns; but to reproduce
itself, until the final wreck of matter
and crash of Worlds. In it is con.
tanned the life germ Of all things
whether animal or vegetable, from it.
man digs wealth, life and health.
Upon it almost every thing that is
really useful to man, is built, or from
it emenates. Without soil tilling, in
some form, man could not live, at
any time, or age, since he was turned
out Of his Eden, where "the Lord
Cod" made every thing to grow spon-
taneously, that was useful to man,
and which blissful state man forfeited
by sinful disobedience to it, almost
all other trades and callings are but
incidents or adjuncts, made neces-
sary to its growth and usefulnes.
Adam was ''tiller of the soil,' so
was Cain his first born. Abel, was
a shepherd, which, seems to have been
the second calling, made necessary
to gather, and domesticate flocks and
herds, to feed man, and to Craze the
the titled lands. Then, we can i'm.
agine, came the house or tent-builder,
the smith, the harness and the pillow
maker, DC, DC, all but helps or adj
juncts to the tilling of the soil Next,
we can imagine, that array Of pro-
ducers, and soil-tillers, made it nee
essary to have markets for these pro-
ducts in the shape of consumers.
Hence, great cities were built and
peopled. This made the building OF
ships, boats &c. necessity to transport
these products to market, until now,
the commercial marine of the world
whitens every sea, lake, gulf and
great river. But let us not forget
that all these are but the legitimate
offspring of that Heaven born and
commissioned mother, "Tilling of the
Soil" Who, if not the another of all
living" as was Eve, is at least the
mother of most that is really useful
here. And yet, while true Science
has been made to cast her benign
and intelligent rays upon almost every
thing else. Soil tilling has to a very
great extent been permitted to drag
her slow length along, enveloped in
the darkest of ignorance and uncer-
tainty. The tendency of Science, as
developed, is to have US know every
thing but ourselves, and that Heav-
en- born calling, tilling of the soil, by
which we live Science is made to
walk through the Heavens and count
the stars, measure accurately their
respective distances from us and from
each other, as well as their magni-
tudes and dimensions, and to weigh
them as in the scales, to measure
their pace, survey their orbs and
routes and recognize their greetings.
Science is made to delve deep down
beneath the tiller of the soils ken,
into the bowels of mother Earth, and
then, by the light of Science, lay
open the mighty rocks upon which
this earth is founded, as with the
knife of the skilled surgeon, and an
alyze, and read, and know, whereof
they are made, and what purposes
they will best subserve to man.
Them. again, Science vets her plume
In mid-ocean, and penetrates every
ocean, sea, gulf, lake and river, ana
lying their liquid contents with ease
and certainty, thereby knowing what
they contain and of what made.
From thence, Science again takes
her fight into the armament above,
and there, on the wings of the morn
ing, measures the expansiyeness of
the solar system, weighs the density