James D. Hague 



modern inventions, the Keeley Mo- 

 tor, the extraction of precious metals 

 from the ocean, everything in heaven, 

 or in the air — from flying machines 

 to humming-birds and butterflies — 

 or in the earth, whether the product 

 of the soil or of the mine, or in the 

 waters under the earth, including the 

 sea-serpent, in the existence of which 

 he died a firm believer, together with 

 the social and political conditions of 

 people everywhere, the foreign wars 

 and revolutions, the international re- 

 lations of the world at large, bimet- 

 allism, the demonetization of silver 

 and, especially, the Bank of England 

 rate, engaged his daily attention and 

 constant solicitude. 



Cutter was a phenomenal Ameri- 

 can, a composite, in characteristic 

 qualities, of Confucius,* Socrates, 



* A noteworthy likeness in the occupations 

 of their younger days appears in the histori- 

 cal coincidence that Confucius " in his youth 

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