THE CALL OF THE LAND 



in any case be, the promoter is seldom lost 

 in his firm. 



Again, as already remarked, the promo- 

 ter may or may not be an inventor ; and if he 

 is an inventor, it is not in his character as an 

 inventor that he acts as a promoter. Most 

 commonly the man who markets an inven- 

 tion is not the inventor himself, but a pro- 

 fessional promoter who may know only the 

 general principles which the invention 

 involves. 



In like manner the promoter may not be 

 an expert at the business he is seeking to 

 launch. If he happens to be, all the better, 

 probably; yet many of the most successful 

 promoters have become such without expert 

 knowledge of their own, depending for this 

 upon engineers and other trained agents 

 whose skill and services they could com- 

 mand for money. 



The promoter as such is not and cannot 

 be any one's agent. He acts on his own 

 hook. Himself is the interested party to all 

 he does as promoter. Till launched, his 

 scheme is his and his alone. Agents and em- 



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