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Illinois Plan for Land Grant Colleges 21 PLAN FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY ' There should be connected with such an institution in this State a sufficient quantity of land of variable soil and aspect, for all its needful annual experiments and processes in the great interests of Agriculture and Horticulture. "Buildings of appropriate size and construction for all its ordinary and special uses; a complete philosophical, chemical, 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 the adjacent States. "Instruction should be given constantly in the anatomy and physiology, the nature, instincts and habits of all animals, insects, trees, and plants; their laws of propagation, 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; the 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 ' found in the creeds of party politicians, and sectarian 1
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