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150 History University of Illinois and machines, and architecture, open a wide field for mechanical skill and ingenuity where knowledge will be sure to meet a reward. These things are evident to every reflecting mind; all who soundly weigh the matter favor the scheme, and if wisely managed, it cannot prove a failure. As you say the difficulties now standing in the way will vanish as we progress, but not if we stand still. " T h e fact that thousands of our citizens are driven by necessity or ignorance from their homes while owning quarters and sections of land to endure all the hardships of a California journey, while their farms under a proper system of culture might have been made to roll in wealth as fast as it would have been good for them to receive, admonishes us that something must be done for mental culture, before our soil will receive its proper culture." Mr. Bullock himself was a man of education. In 1834 at the age of twenty he matriculated in Brown university but was compelled to cease study before he took his degree because of trouble with his eyes. He was a native of Massachusetts, a man of determination and vision, and he gave of his best that the world might be made better for the young man. WILLIAM A. PENNELL William A. Pennell was president of the Buel institute at the time when Jonathan B. Turner unfolded his famous Granville plan. Also he was for a number of years an associate director of the Industrial league of Illinois. How he was regarded by the agriculturists is shown in a letter to him written by Turner January 27, 1864. In this letter Turner requested Pennell to write to the Prairie Farmer giving a report of the earlier work of the Industrial league which people had almost forgotten. "You could speak of it more fully and at many points more explicitly than I could," he wrote, "without even any apparent egotism or danger because you were not at that time so deeply involved in the transient contents of the hour. You are almost the only live one among the 'old wheel horses' from whom I am still permitted to hear. Alas how many of
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