HIS LIFE AND WORK 



He made money ten millions or more; but 

 he did so incidentally, just as a man makes 

 muscle by doing hard work. Several of his 

 fellow Chicagoans had swept past him in the 

 million-making race. No matter how much 

 money came to him, he was the same man, with 

 the same friendships and the same purposes. 

 And it is inconceivable that, for any amount 

 of wealth, he would have changed the ground- 

 plan of his life. 



It is strictly true to say that he was a practical 

 idealist. He idealized the American Consti- 

 tution, the Patent Office, the Courts, the Dem- 

 ocratic Party, and the Presbyterian Church. 

 He was an Oliver Cromwell of industry. All 

 his beliefs and acts sprang from a few simple 

 principles and fitted together like a picture 

 puzzle. There was religion in his business 

 and business in his religion. He was made 

 such as he was by the Religious Reformation 

 of Europe and the Industrial Revolution of the 

 United States. He was all of one piece 

 sincere and self -consistent a type of the 

 nineteenth-century American at his best. He 



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