14, PROPOSALS FOR

and theory, art and science, would not only be intimately united, on a large scale; but the subject of agriculture is such, that experiment has unlimited scope,—may be prosecuted and extended at will, without injury or risk. In the healing art,(which has more affinity than any other to agriculture) the sub- ject of experiment is the human body. Viewing an Institute of Agriculture in no other light than that of a theatre of experiment, anda seminary of practical improvements, an hundred thousand pounds a year(if it could not be con- ducted with less) might be expended upon it, with sound policy. There is no hope of attaining the higher stages of improvement(especially in what relates to the growth and general economy of vegetables, including their food, and the operation of manures) without a public establishment. A single improvement, annually, might repay the nation, ten-

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