USDA Electronic Filing: Progress Made, But Central Leadership and Comprehensive Implementation Plan Needed: Report to the Chairman

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... bad origin in human nature, any more than in-physical nature; and for the same reason, that God made them both. _ The growing perception of this truth is changing the temper of the physical sciences, and will ultimately change moral and theological science. How reverent and watchful of law has science become! how believing in the beneficence and divinity of nature I Adoring worshippers sit before the microscope, the photographic mirror, the geologic strata. There is nothing common or unclean. Dirt, as was well said, is matter in the wrong place. There is no dirt, when matter is kept in its proper place. There is only order, beauty, beneficence, in physical nature or human nature, when considered in their design. How tenderly and patiently has medicine, once so bold, aggressive, and alert, learned to wait on nature, following her hints, assisting her efforts, and relying chiefly on her own healing and recuperative powers? And how has politics grown generous and favorable to human rights and human improvement, in precise proportion as it has learned to trust man, to educate, encourage, and bless him, instead of standing over him with sword and bayonet, addressing his fears, and repressing his hopes and his faculties? Modern civilization, so far as it is new, encouraging, and successful, is based on faith in human nature, as God s work, and not as Satan s boteh. And this faith is at the root of all reforms, as want of it is at thebottom of all resistance to light, freedom, happiness, and is the perpetuation of conventional wrongs and prejudices. Let us not suppose, that to maintain this great and glorious doctrine in all its integrity and encouragement, it is necessary to keep any facts out of view, ...