Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Broader Mission for Liberal Education: Baccalaureate Address, Delivered in Agricultural College Chapel, Sunday, June 9, 1901
European countries abound in sad memories of wasted soil fertility and forest destruction. Slowly but surely they are rebuild ing and rehabilitating worn out tracts at tremendous expense. The ruin which ignorance accomplished with alacrity, education is slowly and painfully undoing. Americans should heed the lessons of history and profit by the mistakes of. Other countries. The production of food, clothing and other necessaries of life which is of Vital importance to a nation, cannot, with safety, be left to blind forces or to revered butignorant traditions. For it is a singular fact that science had quite as much to do with ridding agriculture and the manufacture of commodities of debilitating superstitions that not only retarded progress but were positively injurious to both man and material, as it had to do with the intro duction of rational ideas. The rapid increase of the world's popula tion and the very general occupancy of arable lands throughout the world, presupposes that the maximum of food production will soon be reached. A liberal and general diffusion of scientific informa tion among agriculturists alone can augmentthe productive power of the soil and at the same time conserve its fertility for the support of future generations. This subject demandsa real awak ening of public sentiment as to its importance. Provision must be made for thorough training that will direct the labor which produces the fruits of the earth. Thus to broaden the scope of liberal education it must oe divested 'of all aristocratic limitations and rendered sufficiently democratic to meet the wants of the sons of toil.
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