CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



Jones, and Lewis Miller. But these men were 

 all newcomers. They were beardless striplings 

 compared to McCormick. He had made and 

 exhibited a successful Reaper twenty years be- 

 fore the first of them began. His father had 

 grappled with the problem of the Reaper before 

 most of them were born. It was inevitable, 

 therefore, that there should have been an un- 

 spanable gap between the two points of view. 

 McCormick stood alone because he was alone. 

 He and the Reaper had grown up together in 

 long hazardous years of pioneering, through 

 ridicule and poverty and failure. It was his 

 dream come true. And in the same spirit 

 with which he had fought to create it, he also 

 fought to hold it, and to protect it from men to 

 whom it was not a dream and a life-mission, 

 but a mere machine. 



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