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180 History University of Illinois these pursuits? For what, but for this very end of intellectual discipline and development, has Qod bound the daily labors of all these sons of toil in the shop and on the farm, in close and incessant contact with all the mighty mysteries of his own creative wisdom, as displayed in heaven above, and on earth beneath, and in the waters and soils that are under the earth! Why has God linked the light, the dewdrop, the clouds, the sunshine, and the storm, and concentrated the mighty powers of the earth, the ocean and the sky, directed by that unknown and mysterious force which rolls the spheres, and arms the thunder-cloud—why are all these mystic and potent influences connected with the growing of every plant and the opening of every flower, the motion of every engine and every implement, if he did not intend that each son and daughter of Adam's race should learn through the handicraft of their daily toil, to look through nature! up to nature's God, trace his deep designs, and derive their daily food, from that toil that is ever encircled and circumscribed on all hands, by the unfathomed energies of his wisdom and his power? No foundation for the development and culture of a high order of science and literature, and, the noblest capacities of mind, heart and soul, in connection with the daily employments of the industrial classes !" 2 Then with the fine vigor of an upstanding man who has enough behind his eyes to see what is before them, he thunders: "How came such a heathenish and apostate idea ever to get abroad in the world? Was God mistaken when he first placed Adam in the garden, instead of the academy? or when he sentenced him to toil for his future salvation, instead of giving him over to abstract contemplation? when he made his Son a carpenter instead of a rabbi ? Or when he made a man a man instead of a monk ?' ' 8 In Turner's time these ideas were distinctly revolutionary. Work with the hands still was regarded as the primal curse and to transfer science from the class room and the laboratory Turner, Industrial Universities far the People, 12, 13. «JMd.f 18. M
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