Life of the Agriculturist
"In a moral point of view the life of the agriculturist is," says Lord John Russell. " the most pure and holy ol any class of men ; pure because it is the most healthful, and vice can hardly find time tc contaminate it, and holy because it brings the Deity perpetually before his view, giving him thereby the most exalted notions of supreme power and the I most fascinating and endearing view of moral benignity, The agriculturist views < the Deity in all his works ; he com emplates the Divine economy in the arrange ! ment of the seasons, and he hails Nature immediately presiding over eyery I object that strikes his eyes ; he witnesses many of her great and beauteous operations and her reproductive faculties. His heart insensibly expands from his minute acquaintance with multifarious objects, all in themselves original, whilst that decree ot retirement in which he is placed from the bustling haunt 9 of mankind, keeps alive tn his breast his natural affections, unblunted by an exa tensive and perpetual intercourse with man in a more enlarged, and therefore in a more corrupt state, of Society. His habits become his principles, and he is ready to risk his life to maintain them."
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 125, 11 April 1893, Page 4
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