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Industrial Universities for the People 415 "This subject has made such rapid progress in Europe, within a few years, that I was perfectly amazed to find the facts develop themselves as they did, one after another. I do not believe there is a class of students of any kind, in our country, who would be able to answer one-tenth of the questions which those young men answered very readily," (that is in the European agricultural schools,)—"and going out, as they do, to take charge of other schools, they will accomplish much for the benefit of their country, as well as by their example in applying their principles for other farmers. The people must do this thing—if the people are not ready to force government to help them, it will do no good. It must be a weighty concern; and individuals,—one would suppose, would sink under it." Such are the suggestions of one of our most able and experienced scientific teachers, who has, probably, taken more pains to investigate the subject practically, especially during his tour in Europe, than any other man in the country. At this meeting, after a most thorough discussion of the subject by eminent scientific and practical men present, the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture "resolved that a thorough systematic course of education, is as necessary to prepare the cultivator of the soil, for pre-eminence in his calling, as to secure excellence in any of the schools of science or art:—that for want of such an education, millions of dollars, and a vast amount of time, and energy are annually lost to the commonwealth, and the yeomanry have a right to claim from the government the same fostering care, which is extended to other great interests of the community." In the memorial to the legislature of Massachusetts the memorialists say: "Your memorialists are not aware, that it is any more easy to get a thorough knowledge of husbandry by individual exertion and private study, than it is to acquire, in that way, a competent knowledge of law, medicine or divinity, and your memorialists know of no way by which that knowledge can be attained, but by a regular course of instruction." This memorial is signed by some of the most eminent schi|| ars and civilians of Massachusetts. f^Ainong them appear m& names of the Honorable MARSHAL P. WILDER, Honorable EDWAIB>
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