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learn it by degrees, as all other great things are 

 learned, if they will apply themselves, vhich they 

 will have to do or suffer loss. And Mr. Kirby, the 

 well-known inventor of the Kirby harvester, has been 

 taking lessons. He saw this work done and measured 

 the feet before spreading, and stood and saw the feet 

 spread, then measured them after this was done and 

 watched the result. He wanted to know for himself, 

 and that is the way. I never had any trouble from 

 such men as these, and this kind of men will be the 

 men to help introduce this science or it never can be 

 done. My long experience working at mechanical 

 work has taus^ht me this — the higher must teach the 

 lower; the lower cannot rise all at once. How can 

 they? And all men that fight this work with all 

 this evidence before them, coming as it does from men 

 well advanced and developed in science, men of char- 

 acter, of good standing, and they have earned it and 

 they are not going to indorse a science unless it is all 

 right and then have to tight against such men and evi- 

 dence as this, any longer will only expose your 

 io-norance. Here will be the great center of action to 

 set it sailing, for sail it will, and no power on earth can 

 stop it. Now, what is the use trying to throw blocks 

 under the wheels of progression ? They always have 

 had to move out of the way and always will. There 

 are lots more of things to learn yet. I have got 

 another bifrger thinor than this horse science, which I 

 have been working on about twenty -five years to per- 

 fect. I vshall if I live bring that forward when I get 

 it so I can handle it as well as I can this horse busi- 

 ness. On that I challenge all the wisdom, knowledge, 



