Elias Hasket Derby Professions : Merchant Born : August 16, 1739 Died : September 8, 1799 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Elias Hasket Derby When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disease attack one of its important products; let an insect, or a parasite, fasten on a single esculent, and mark the effect upon commerce and human life. Upon such an event all business is deranged. Elias Hasket Derby agriculture important joy Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture. Elias Hasket Derby agriculture ocean men A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection. Elias Hasket Derby agriculture perfection doe Similar Authors Marco Polo merchant John Woolman merchant John Wanamaker merchant John G. Shedd merchant Siyyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi merchant Thomas Lipton merchant All Authors
