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Agriculture--A Pioneer Of Human Re
ferm.--In tracing the history Of society,
the mind is almost dazzled by the constant
series of progression with which the sue
cesslul cultivation of the soil has ever been
attended. Some of the happiest changes
that have come over our race, are those
which have been wrought under the in
fluence of human industry and enterprise.
We may, perhaps, regard agriculture,
therefore, as the pole-star which is to guide
countless millions Of the benightcd Of this
world over the trackless ocean Of ignorance
and superstition, whose dark surges have
SO long washed out the imprint of religion
and civilization, from vast portionsof the
human family.


But for the arts OF agriculture, which
the Creator of the universe directed our
first parents TO cherish and practise, the
world might still have remained in appal.
ling ignorance and degradation; the bright
sunlight of Christianity might never have
shed its genial rays upon these beautiful
hills and plains; and the sweet music of
industry, and the peaceful consciousness
Of unsurpassed social and moral elevation,
might have been drowned in the wild war
whoop of savage life.


When we look at the immense results
produced upon the world by agricultural
enterprise, the most interesting reflections
crowd upon the imagination, and we be-
come, as it were, enamored with the sub
curse upon men, we come to esteem 1t as
the greatest and richest of all temporal
blessings.