For his God doth instruct him The art of husbandry is so necessary for the support of human life, that all men have ascribed its original to God as the inventor and ordainer of it. The Most High hath ordained husbandry, saith the son of Sirach, Sir 7:15. In like manner, Virgil, Georg., lib. 1. line 121:
“ Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit, primusq; per artem Movit agros.”
“Himself invented first the shining share, And whetted human industry by care;
Himself did handicrafts and arts ordain;
Nor suffer'd sloth to rust his active reign.”
By other heathen, the invention of agriculture is ascribed to the goddess Ceres.