When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

  • -- Daniel Webster 丹尼尔·韦伯斯特

当耕作开始时,其他的艺术也随之而来。因此,农民是人类文明的奠基人。

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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

随着农业的引进,人类进入了一段漫长的贫困、痛苦和疯狂的时期,直到现在他们才被机器的仁慈运转所解放。

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

因此,缺乏才能的学生将不会从这项工作中获得更多的利润,就像从一篇农业论文中获得贫瘠的土壤一样。