To go into the midst of Dartmoor, and turn an acre of its cold, stony, water-soaked waste into a fruitful field of golden grain, is going into co-partnership with Providence in the work of creation to a very large and honored degree.

But to put the skilful hand of science upon creatures of flesh and blood, to re-form their physical structures and shapes, to add new inches to their stature, straighten their backs, expand their reins, amplify their chests, reduce all the lines and curves of their forms to an unborn symmetry, and then to give silky softness and texture to their aboriginal clothing--this seems to be mounting one step higher in the attainment and dignity of creative faculties.

And this pre-eminently was the department in which Jonas Webb acquired a distinction perhaps unparalleled to the present time.

This has made his name familiar all over Christendom, and honored among the world's benefactors.

Never, before him, did a farm-stead become such a centre and have such a wide-sweeping radius as his.