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But agriculture is now not only an art, in a high degree of perfection, it is also a science, with its laws and rules, as much as navigation or astronomy.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “But agriculture is now not only an art, in a high degree of perfection, it is also a science, with its laws and rules…”
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Sumner emphasizes the evolution of agriculture from a simple art to a complex science.
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