Report of the Transactions of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...are wise as Himself, universal as His presence, and potent as His power. He who assails the wisdom of these laws, assails the Deity himself, and would if he had the power, produce a state of things that would make existence a curse and earth a very hell. There is no created thing that can say to his fellow creature, "/ have no need of thee" but each one forming a link in the mighty chain of being, supports the one below it, and is supported in its turn. Away then with the impious thought that any man or class of men can live in independence of their fellow creatures, no matter how obscure or humble. Away, too, with the idle thought that men should be alike--be trained to the same employment, perform the same duties, or live the same lives. While men are men; while they remain as God has made them, with tastes and powers and hearts and intellects as various as their faces, there is no Procrustean bed to which they can be stretched or fitted. Away, too, wkh the silly thought that any man or class of men is better than another, because of his tastes, his talents or his occupation. The little star that twinkles faintly on the very verge of the universe, is as useful as the sun. The modest violet, blooming alone, half hidden by the mossy rock, sprung from the same hand that reared the lofty oak, and fills its destined place as well. The man who tills the soil, and does it well, performs his duty; but is no better or more useful than he who labors in the workshop, or than he who, by means of commerce, spreads and enhances the labor of both. Nor are they all or eitheV better or more useful than the man whose hands are unstained by labor, but whose mental powers are bent with proper force on that to which his tastes impel him. The minister of God who...