*LOTS OF POINTS & BRAINLIEST* The scarcity of labor in America and, the difficulty of procuring help in the work of the farm, the mill,
and the forge, develops the intellect of the people; and far away in the backwoods many an acute
pioneer of civilization invents and patents some ingenious machine for rendering men and women
independent of the hired service so costly and so difficult to obtain in a new country. The mechanical
skill of the Americans is unequaled in the world, and never likely to be rivaled in the old countries of
Europe, where labor is cheap. The Patent Office at Washington—that marvelous repository of
contrivances, from the simplest to the most elaborate machine that the cunning hand and the busy brain
can construct—and all devoted to the one great end of facilitating work, and economizing manual and
other bodily exertion—is sufficient proof of . . . the practical and material, as distinguished from the
scholastic, education of the American people.

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