LOTS OF POINTS & BRAINLIEST

The scarcity of labor in America and, the difficulty of procuring help in the work of the farm, the mill,
and the forge, develops the intellect of the people; and far away in the backwoods many an acute
pioneer of civilization invents and patents some ingenious machine for rendering men and women
independent of the hired service so costly and so difficult to obtain in a new country. The mechanical
skill of the Americans is unequaled in the world, and never likely to be rivaled in the old countries of
Europe, where labor is cheap. The Patent Office at Washington—that marvelous repository of
contrivances, from the simplest to the most elaborate machine that the cunning hand and the busy brain
can construct—and all devoted to the one great end of facilitating work, and economizing manual and
other bodily exertion—is sufficient proof of . . . the practical and material, as distinguished from the
scholastic, education of the American people.

PLEASE HELP ME DESCRIBE, SUPPORT, AND EXPLAIN THIS DOCUMENT.

Basically the text is explaining that the way Americans level of skill made them unequaled to the rest of the world (mind, that is not a fact because there was a large share of well-working people in the world in this time) . Also it explains that American brain and ability to construct (why is this entire article just bragging about Americans being so much better when that's not 100% true?) was one of the most economic boosting things and they were very productive for that timeframe.

That's my best understanding of the article. (Scholastic really likes to brag about Americans, huh?)

-Northstar