Timehri : the journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana . disinclination to work onthe soil by the then rising generation led to further neglect, until the aidof the Government was required. The Government assisted by helpingwith loans, granting village administration and what not, until now theGovernment is perhaps looked upon as the remedy for all evils. We are reaping to-day the aftermath from the sowings of the peopleresponsible for the freeing of the bondmen, without making any adequatepreparation for teaching and training those emancipated to distinguishb
Timehri : the journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana . disinclination to work onthe soil by the then rising generation led to further neglect, until the aidof the Government was required. The Government assisted by helpingwith loans, granting village administration and what not, until now theGovernment is perhaps looked upon as the remedy for all evils. We are reaping to-day the aftermath from the sowings of the peopleresponsible for the freeing of the bondmen, without making any adequatepreparation for teaching and training those emancipated to distinguishbetween liberty and licence. As time passed, this repugnance to the soil became more and moremarked. A little learning awakened ambition, and though in very manyinstances this has been ambition in the right direction, in many others itis an ambition which scorns manual and honest labour and aspires to ahigh collar and a pen behind the ear. Even the horny-handed farmers of to-day feel it their duty to make theirsons either teachers or clerks—anything rather than an independent Iii a Lime Factory.
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