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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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Industrial Universities far the People 387 anatomical, and industrial apparatus; a general cabinet, embracing everything that relates to, illustrates, or facilitates any one of the industrial arts; especially all sorts of animals, birds, reptiles, insects, trees, shrubs, and plants found in this State and adjacent States. Instruction should be constantly given in the anatomy and physiology, the nature, instincts and habits of all animals, insects, trees and plants; their laws of propogation, primogeniture, growth, and decay, disease and health, life and death; on the nature,, composition, adaptation, and regeneration of soils; on the nature, strength, durability, preservation, perfection, composition, cost, use, and manufacture of all materials of art and trade; on political, financial, domestic, and, manual economy, (or the saving of labor of the hand,) in all industrial processes; on the true principles of national, constitutional, and civil law; and the true theory and art of governing and controlling, or directing the labor of men in the State, the family, shop, and farm; on the laws of vicinage, or the laws of courtesy and comity between neighbors, as such, and on the principles of health and disease in the human subject, so far at least as is needful for household safety; on the laws of trade and commerce, ethical, conventional, and practical; on book-keeping and accounts; and in short, in all those studies and sciences, of whatever sort, which tend to throw light upon any art or employment, which any student may desire to master, or upon any duty he may be called to perform; or which may tend to secure his moral, civil, social and industrial perfection, as a man. No species of knowledge should be excluded, practical or theoretical; unless, indeed, those specimens of "organized ignorance' J found in the creeds of party politicians, and sectarian ecclesiastics should be mistaken by some for a species of knowledge. Whether a distinct classical department should be added or not, would depend on expediency. It might be deemed best to leave that department to existing colleges as their more appropriate work, and to form some practical and economical connection with them for that purpose: or it might be best to attach a classical department in due time to the institution itself. •H
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