Excerpt from A Family-Text Book for the Country, or the Farmer at Home: Being a Cyclopaedia of the More Important Topics in Modern Agriculture, and in Natural History and Domestic Economy, Adapted to Rural Life

Why is home the most desirable place that can be found to the man of correct taste Why does he enjoy himself better there than elsewhere Why do his affections centre in it, as the atoms in a crude mass of matter tend to their common point of magnetic attraction It is because every thing appertaining to it is in harmony with his own nature; and he is so familiarized with the whole that he is as much a part and parcel thereof as a leg, or an arm, or a hand, or a foot is a part of the human structure When in that hallowed precinct the same system of instinct and pulsation is common to him and every one sharing it with him 5 there is, as it were, but one current of blood to give vigor to the Whole frame 5 but one measure of animal heat to wartn every part 5 and but one mental aspira tion to impart that general buoyancy and elasticity which characterize the entire organization with moral beauty. Remove him from this comma nion of interest and mental and physical action, and in a measure he becomes paralyzed like an amputated'limb, or like an individual translated from the knowledge and influence of social institutions to some uninhabited and desolate part of the earth. Home is dear to him because he is familiar with everything pertaining to it 5 because in it with all dear to him he has a joint interest5 and, because there is about it a fragrance which perfumes the atmosphere breathed by all, and above it a halo that dispels every dark and cold shadow which gathers upon the soul.

The American Farmer at Home 5 or a Family text-book for the Country.

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