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264 Reminiscences of the late Mr. Whitney. 
On Mr. Whitney’s tomb is the following inscription : 
ELI WHITNEY, 
inventor of the Cotton Gin. 
Of useful science and arts, the efficient patron and improver. 
d In the social relations of life, a model of excellence. 
While private  ctoane weeps at his tomb, his country honors his memory. 
orn Dee. 8, 1765.—Died Jan. 8, 1825. 
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their capitals increased ; their lands trebled in value.’§ It may be said indeed that 
this belongs to the physical and material nature of man, and ought not to be com- 
-with what has been done by the intellectual benefactors of mankind; the Mil- 
tons, the Shakspeares, and the Newtons. But is it quite certain that any thing short 
of the: lig intellectual vigor—the brightest genius—is sufficient to invent one of 
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ahd we fan hy oe ans be persuaded, that the peculiar aptitude for combining and 
the ‘simple powers of pe so as to produce these marvellous opera- 
- fions, does riot imply a vivacity of the imagination, not inferior to that of the poet 
and the orator. And then, as to the effect on society, the machine, it is true, oper 
ates, in the first instance, on mere physical elements, to produce an accu i 
lation fr and eavined a waste wit 
done a service to the cousiry of t the Aint moral and intellectual character? 
perity is the parent of civilization, and all its refinements; and every family of P 
perous citizens, added to the community, is an addition of so many nag invent 
ing, moral and immortal natures.”—WVew Eng cland Magazine, Vov.1 
The words of Mr. Justice Johnson of South Carolina, in the opinion in the case 
of Whitney versus Carter 
