Excerpt from On a Proper Education for an Agricultural People: Delivered American Institute of Instruction, Boston, August, 1835 Having assumed this principle, _ it remains to unfold, as far, as may be, the opportunities of an agricultural people Of all professions whose duty is bodily labor, none affords a better, probably none affords so good, an Opportunity for both early and later instruction - ah opportunity which we may hope every attempt to unfold may make to be better improved. 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.