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Excerpt from Georgical Essays, Vol. 3
In ages of greater refinement, and more general knowledge, the folly of a worship thus grossly misapplied became so evident, as to occasion its total extermination; but the wisest governments have always regarded Agriculture as an object of the first magnitude and importance, and by various means encouraged and promoted it.
With respect to ourselves, the Value of out acres is the grand source of national riches; and this value will ever bear an exact proportion to their cultivation and produce. And therefore, as Agriculture is the basis of our public wealth; and the happiness of numberless individuals, I take the liberty of introducing a brief account of the origin and progress of this art in the different ages and nations.
The art of tilling, cultivating, and improving the earth, so as to render it fruitful, claims the precedency of all other arts in point of antiquity as well as dignity.
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