HIS LIFE AND WORK 



I can do no other." They must recollect how 

 these three men, who were leaders of nations, 

 not sects, stood out alone against the kings and 

 ecclesiasticisms of Europe, without wealth, 

 without armies, without anything except a 

 higher Moral Idea, and succeeded so might- 

 ily they actually changed the course of em- 

 pires and became the pathfinders of the 

 human race. 



McCormick was so essentially a result of this 

 religio-economic movement that it is impossible 

 to separate his religion and his business life. 

 He was an individualist through and through 

 as well marked a type of the Covenanter in 

 commerce as the United States has ever pro- 

 duced. He believed in presbyters in religion, 

 private capitalists in business, and elected 

 representatives in government. He was op- 

 posed to feudalism and bureaucracy in all their 

 myriad forms. He held the middle ground, 

 the via media, between the over-organization 

 of the fourteenth century, when the rights of 

 the individual were forgotten, and the lax liber- 

 alism of to-day, when too much is left to indi- 



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