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Future Supply of Cotton/' 1864; "The Collection of Revenue/' 

 1866; "Free Trade and Revenue Reform/' 1871; "The Visible and 

 Invisible in Protection/' 1872 ; " An Easy Lesson in Money and 

 Banking/' 1874 ; " Argument for the Conditional Reform of the 

 Legal-Tender Act/' 1874 ; " Commercial Development in the First 

 Century of the Republic/' 1876 ; " Industrial Reconstruction/' 1878 ; 

 " Our National Domain " (chart), 1879 ; " American View of Ameri- 

 can Competition" (London), 1879 ; " Labor and Capital Allies, not 

 Enemies/' 1880 ; " The Fire-Engineer, the Architect, and the Un- 

 derwriter," 1880; "The Railroads of the United States," 1880; 

 " The Unlearned Professions," 1880 ; "Address on Banking," 1880 ; 

 " A Reply to Prof. Bonamy Price/' 1880 ; " Cotton Manufactures 

 of the United States/' 1880 ; " Addresses at Atlanta, Ga., at the 

 International Cotton Exposition," 1880, 1881 ; "What is a Bank ?" 

 1881 ; " Elementary Instruction in the Mechanic Arts," 1881 ; " Ad- 

 dress at the Annual Banquet of the Massachusetts Charitable 

 Association," 1881 ; "What makes the Rate of Interest?" 1881; 

 Address on the Right Method of preventing Fires in Mills," 1881 ; 

 " The Solid South," 1881 ; " The Railway and the Farmer," 1881 ; 

 " Kentucky Farms," 1881 ; " The Influence of Boston Capital upon 

 Manufactures," 1882; " Significant Aspects of the Atlanta Expo- 

 sition/' 1882 ; " The Rapid Spread of Communism," 1882 ; " Ad- 

 dress at the Opening of the Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Insti- 

 tute Fair," 1882 ; " Inefficiency of Economic Legislation," 1882 ; 

 " What makes the Rate of Wages ? " 1884 ; " Address to the Chiefs 

 of the Bureau of Labor Statistics," 1885 ; " The Distribution of 

 Products/' 1885 ; " On the Application of Science to the Produc- 

 tion and Consumption of Food/' 1885 ; " Prevention of " Loss by 

 Fire," 1885 ; " The Hours of Labor/' 1885 ; " Address on the Silver 

 Question," 1886 ; a series of monographs (in " Bradstreet's ") on eco- 

 nomic questions ; a series of articles (in " The Century ") on " Food 

 and Wages"; "The Margin of Profits," 1887; "Report on Bimet- 

 allism in Europe," 1888 ; a series of articles in " The Forum," 1888. 

 Of these papers, the address at Atlanta, in 1880, was characterized 

 by Judge E. R. Hoar as marking an " era in the history of the 

 country " ; and the book on the " Distribution of Products " was 

 pronounced by Sir Louis Mallet " epoch-making." 



It has been advanced as a weak point in the theory that man has received his 

 qualities by inheritance from the other races, that when men manifest extraor- 

 dinary qualities they are such as are entirely different from those possessed by 

 any other creature, and peculiar. Human prodigies excel, not in the development 

 of animal traits and instincts, but as wonderful calculators, great moral geniuses, 

 or phenomenal musicians. The most wonderful instincts of the lower creatures 

 appear to be extinguished by the advance of reason, instead of being stimulated 

 by it ; and men who transcend humanity do so not in the respects in which they 

 have inherited most, but in those in which they have inherited least. 



