THE STORY OF BREAD 



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since the day fire was first kindled under water, but 

 Watt was near and turned steam into power. In 

 America, Fulton used this power to turn the wheels 

 of a steamboat, and Peter Cooper, another American, 

 followed Stephenson in England by putting steam 

 into an engine called a locomotive. Printing was 

 invented that the world might have more books to 

 read; but man tilled the soil with a crooked stick 

 and reaped the harvest with a sickle — just as had 

 been the way from the days of Boaz — and only the 

 few had time to read. 



Scientists had time for the problem of the origin 

 of man ; but not for the problem of how to feed him. 

 This was so all the way from Copernicus, the father 

 of science, to Darwin, who was born the same year 

 as McCormick. In the Old World, Darwin pointed 

 back to the trail along which the human race had 

 climbed; in the New World, McCormick pointed to 

 the heights up which the race was yet to go. 



All the thought of all the philosophers failed to 

 contribute a mouthful of bread to the hungry; litera- 

 ture flourished as it never has flourished since; 

 music marched from master to master, and poets 

 sang their sweetest songs; art was born and nursed 

 into everlasting life; soldiers fought and captured, 

 and again fought and were captured. 



Josiah Wedgwood was busy making beautiful 

 plates in England, whither the art had drifted from 

 Holland. But he soon discovered just ahead a 



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