Word: unsounded
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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STUDENTS in economic science must have watched the Grange movement in the West this summer with much curiosity. Whether any valuable principle will be satisfactorily tested, or whether the farmers, blind from ignorance, will take the outstretched hand of politicians, and, after trying some unsound, plausible scheme, eventually sink back into their old state of comparative inferiority, are yet open questions. But it seems as if this country was about to learn by experience, what Scandinavia has long practised, that agriculturists can co-operate, as advantageously as other producers, both in selling their products and in buying implements and vital...
...shall be careful not to say anything unworthy ourselves or them. Wild and general accusations, in which the plainest thing is the author's bitterness, do not get or deserve much attention. But to a carefully considered, temperate article nobody ought to object; for, though its ideas are unsound, they are less likely to be harmful if stated fully and clearly than if left to spread through the college in the disjointed form of conversation. The error will be detected sooner, and, as a rule, college men are too honorable to side with what they see to be unfair, even...