CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



to a question as to Cyrus McCormick's place as 

 an inventor, Mr. Whiteley said: "McCormick 

 invented the divider and the practical reel; and 

 he was the first man to make the Reaper a suc- 

 cess in the field." Mr. Marsh said: "He was a 

 meritorious inventor, although he combined 

 the ideas of other men with his own; and he 

 produced the first practical side-delivery ma- 

 chine in the market." And Mr. Emerson said: 

 'The enemies of Cyrus H. McCormick have 

 said that he was not an inventor, but I say 

 that he was an inventor of eminence." 



Thus it appears that the invention of the 

 Reaper was not in any sense unique; it came 

 about by an evolutionary process such as pro- 

 duced all other great discoveries and inventions. 

 First come the dreamers, the theorists, the 

 heroic innovators who awaken the world's brain 

 upon a new line of thought. Then come the 

 pioneers who solve certain parts of the problem 

 and make suggestions that are of practical value. 

 And then, in the fulness of time, comes one 

 masterful man who is more of a doer than 

 a dreamer, who works out the exact combi- 



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