HIS LIFE AND WORK 



nation of ideas to produce the result, and 

 establishes the new product as a necessary 

 part of the equipment of the whole human 

 family. 



Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the Reaper. 

 He did more he invented the business of 

 making Reapers and selling them to the farmers 

 of America and foreign countries. He held 

 preeminence in this line, with scarcely a break, 

 until his death; and the manufacturing plant 

 that he founded is to-day the largest of its kind. 

 Thus, it is no more than an exact statement 

 of the truth to say that he did more than any 

 other member of the human race to abolish the 

 famine of the cities and the drudgery of the 

 farih to feed the hungry and straighten the 

 bent backs of the world. 



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