Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A NEW THEORY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE SOIL, In WHICH IT WILL BE SHOWN THAT AGRICULTURISTS HAVE HERETOFORE OPERATED AGAINST NATURE, INSTEAD OF AIDING HER. ALSO, IT WILL BE PROVEN, THAT LAND MAY BE RENDERED RICH WITHOUT THE APPLICATION OF A PARTICLE OF STABLE OR COMPOST MANURE. The landed estate is the most sacred interest that we have in the United States; whatever concerns Agriculture concerns every inhabitant of the globe, for its interests are the interests of the world; and, therefore, every effort that is made to advance the success of the farmer, must spring at once from a pure spirit of philanthropy and patriotism. He who introduces into the art of Agriculture any thing new and uselul, renders himself at once a greater benefactor to mankind, than he who thunders at the gates of cities, and achieves a thousand victories in the field. I hold the doctrine to be incontestible, that the man who advances in any manner whatever the art of husbandry, is more deserving of fame than was the mad Macedonian when he conquered the world, and sawthe nations of the earth kneeling before him;?yes, he is far more worthy of renown than was Napoleon, though thrones trembled and crowns crumbled at his approach. Alas, that the benefactors of mankind should so often have met the cold indifference of the world, and have been left to pine in penury, and perish unnoticed and disregarded. To the warrior who destroys thousands of his fellow beings, and makes so many mothers mourn, the marble monument is erected, and his renown is recorded on the imperishable pages of history. To him who invents a many chambered rifle to destroy the human race by the wholesale, thousands of money are given, and his name recorded in the temple of fame. But how did poor Whitney, the inventer of the Cotton Gin, liv...

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