iven to this other sort of genius which has
multiplied human food beyond computation and has otherwise so largely
mitigated the burdens of life.

_Vocational Education._ From the foregoing it is little wonder that the
education of the masses is surely and rapidly gravitating from the
classical to the utilitarian, from the formal to the vocational. The
world's work must be done, and as those whose stewardship is the soil
are compelled to render a combined physical and mental service in order
to discharge their social obligations, they are entitled to education in
harmony with the tasks awaiting them, to the end that they may work
intelligently, hence joyfully.

Agriculture and engineering, therefore, are fundamental vocations when
considered either from the view-point of necessity or the country's
prosperity. By many, however, the spiritual well-being of a people is
considered paramount, and in a sense it is, but a cheerful soul seldom
inhabits a naked or hungry body.

As food, clothing and shelter are absolute necessities, no degree of
culture or religious enthusiasm can render them less needful. Heaven's
choicest physical gift, the soil, provides the means for acquiring these
indispensable necessities, and the vocation that accepts the
responsibility of its stewardship ministers to the physical, as
educators minister to the mental, or the clergy to the spiritual needs
of man. Moreover, in the order of Nature the physical takes precedence,
being primary and basic, and until legitimate physical wants are
supplied, neither mental nor spiritual food can be satisfactorily
assimilated.

A commonwealth, therefore, that educates her children in due proportion
to and in harmony with the demands of her principal industry, acts the
part of wisdom. In this the state becomes the servant of both present
and future generations by training her children for the conservation of
Nature's gifts, while yet multiplying their use for the comfort and
happiness of all the people. If the clergy would preach occasionally
from the book of Nature, they would discover a proximity to and
dependence upon God enjoyed by him who sows and reaps, who cultivates
animals and flowers, who creates things and works miracles as his
ordinary life work, which few others can enjoy. Such themes might not
only be expounded with profit to those who work their fellowmen, but
should also be impressed betimes upon those who work the soil for the
good of their fell