Part 12 (1/2)
”M Duhariculturist, has made direct and positive experi this question, and has clearly and conclusively shown that the qualities of timber felled in different parts of the lunar reatfrom the same soil, and exposed to the same aspect, and never found any difference in the quality of the timber, when he compared those which were felled in the decline of the eneral, they have afforded timber of the same quality He adds, however, that by a circuht difference was manifested in favor of timber which had been felled between the new and full moon, _contrary to popular opinion_”
SUPPOSED LUNAR INFLUENCES--It is an aphorisriculturists in Europe, reetables, plants, and trees, which are expected to flourish and groith vigor, should be planted, grafted, and pruned during the increase of the ether erroneous; for the expeririculturists have clearly established the fact that the increase or decrease of the etation
This erroneous prejudice prevails also on the American continent A French author states that, in Brazil, cultivators plant during the _decline_ of the etables whose _roots_ are used as food, and that, on the contrary, they plant during the _increasing_ ar-cane, maize, rice, beans, etc, and those which bear the food upon their _stocks_ and _branches_ Experiments, however, were etables of both kinds, planted at different times in the lunar month, and no appreciable difference in their qualities was discovered
There are sorono to which they treat the two classes of plants distinguished by the production of fruit on their roots or on their branches differently; but there are none in the European aphorisms The directions of Pliny are still more specific: he prescribes the ti beans, and that of the new o, ”we have need of a robust faith to admit, without proof, that the moon, at the distance of two hundred and forty thousand etation of _beans_, and that in the opposite position, and at the same distance, she shall be propitious to _lentils_”
Dr Lardner gives numerous and extended illustrations of the supposed influence of the ,[38] on the color of the complexion, on putrefaction, on the size of shell-fish, on the quantity of marrow in the bones of aniement, and other humanopinions in different countries disagree, as they do also on some of the others
The influence on the phenomena of human maladies i a faith in the influence of celestial objects upon anis, that he expressly reconorant of astrono Hippocrates, maintained the same opinion, especially of the influence of the moon The critical days, or _crises_, were the seventh, fourteenth, and twenty-first of the disease, corresponding to the intervals between the moon's principal phases While the doctrine of alchemists prevailed, the human body was considered as a microcos the sun, and the brain the moon
The planets had each his proper influence: Jupiter presided over the lungs, Saturn over the spleen, Venus over the kidneys, and Mercury over the organs of generation The ternates unsoundness of rotesque notions, and is defined by Dr Webster as ”a species of insanity or madness, formerly supposed to be influenced by the moon, or periodical in the ree, to be banished froe in that receptacle of all antiquated absurdities of phraseology--the law--lunatic being still the ter his own affairs
Sanctorius, whose name is celebrated in physics for the invention of the therained two pounds' weight at the beginning of every lunar month, which he lost toward its completion This opinion appears to have been founded on experiments made upon himself, and affords another instance of a fortuitous coincidence hastily generalized
For all the progress that has been made in this country toward the re and debasing absurdities which have hitherto enslaved it, we are indebted to our enlightened and chastened systems of popular education; and to these, and to these only, may we confidently look for entire freedom from the thraldom
EDUCATION INCREASES THE PRODUCTIVENESS OF LABOR
Education has a power ofto our personal and encies, whether excellence of climate, spontaneity of production, old Every wise parent, every wise co the prosperity of its children even in the enerous education--HORACE MANN
The best educated are always the best paid--_Foreign Report_
The desirableness of education is ht weindividuals or communities We have already seen that education, and that alone, will dissipate the evils of ignorance We now propose to discuss the equally tenable proposition that education increases the productiveness of labor
That knowledge is power has become a proverb If it be asked why the labor of a man is more valuable than the same amount of physical effort put forth by a brute, the ready answer is, It is because le yoke of oxen will dothan forty men; yet the oxen may be had for fifty cents a day, while each of the men can earn a dollar Physical exertion in this case, cohty times th of the ox is of no account without souided by intelligence within
In proportion as ence increases is his labor more valuable A small compensation is the reward of mere physical pohile skill, coes The labor of an ignorant man is scarcely more valuable than the saent, skillful person are a hundred fold more productive I will pause and illustrate, for I wish to have every person who arises froes do so with the fullest conviction that hest importance even in the ordinary departments of human industry It is, indeed, hardly less important for the man of business, the farislators, and meent farreensward to break up, and having three work-horses, deter some mechanical skill, himself constructed a three-horse whipple-tree, by th of his horses A less intelligent neighbor, pleased with the novel appearance of three horses working abreast, resolved to try the experi the skill requisite to construct such a whipple-tree, he waited till his better-inforh with his, and then, borrowing it, tried the experi, and full of expectation, aided by his two sons and a hired man, he harnessed his three horses to the plow But one of them, for the first time, refused to draw After several fruitless attempts to make the team work as first harnessed, the relative position of the horses was changed, when, lo!
although _this_ horse would draw as fore was made, and the third horse, in turn, refused to draw The farmer could not understand it, nor his sons, nor his hired man His three horses, for the first ti, they would all work in either of two positions, but in the third none of thee of witchcraft had not yet passed At the conclusion of the forenoon he gave up the undertaking in disgust, and, carrying the whipple-tree home, told the story of his unsuccessful and vexatious experiment
”And how did you harness the horses to the whipple-tree?” inquired the ent far end, where there is the most room for them, to be sure!” was the frank reply
The power at the short end, I need not say, should be twice that at the long end; whereas he had it reversed One horse drew against tith a double purchase He then would have to draice as much as both of them, or four times as much as one of the the result of _witchcraft_, as he was inclined to believe, was chargeable solely to the _ignorance_ of their hardly e of the first principles of ree of active, available common sense, would teach the proper use of such a whipple-tree For want of this knowledge, the farrin, lost the tireat injury to his tea this circuave a parallel case, that occurred under his ihbor had a yoke of oxen, one of which was large, strong, and beautiful One day, as the neighbor was passing the residence of the gentleman, the latter re ox” ”Yes,” replied the neighbor, with apparent satisfaction, ”and a bonny fellow he is too He can carry the _long end of the yoke, and grow fat under it_” Here, again, the weaker ox had to tax his strength doubly on account of the advantage which the ignorance of his kind iven to his superior yoke-fellow
A fare of the merest eleate, can not only work eously with his team, but he can do hbor of superior physical strength, though of inferior mental capacity The correctness of this statement may be satisfactorily proved and as, in plowing, and in al norantafter help to do a supposed difficult job, than it will require for a skillful one to do it alone