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Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the Queens County Agricultural Society, at Its Third Anniversary, at Jamaica, Thursday, October 10th, 1844
Agriculture is truly the parent of all science, uniting men 0'by the bonds of civil society, who, without its aid, would continue to be wandering savages, as we may wit ness, duly substantiated, upon the frontiers of our country, in the various stages of human life, from the roving Indian, who subsists by the chase, through the first organization of communities, where they throw off the habits of the hunter state, with its precarious means of living, for the certain recompense arising from the culture of the soil, up to the regular farmer, who tills hundreds of acres for the pro duction of grain. This Cause, the eat and paramount 1m portance of agriculture, its effects In humanizing the world, induced the ancients to worship it under the semblance of Ceres, Pomona, etc., to deify the inventors of the plough, and other means of culture, and to represent the enjoy ment of rural happiness and pursuits as the perfection of their golden e. This honour and reverence for the parent scie'nce We not been confined to particular nations, but has extended over the whole world, wherever the soil has been turned up and prepared for the re eipt of the seed, and its attendant blessings have ever been experienced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
