He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is the benefactor of mankind ; but he who obscurely worked to find the laws of such growth is the intellectual superior as well as the greater benefactor of the two. Nature - Page 190edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
| American periodicals - 1827 - 496 pages
...barbarous ; what is the amount of useful knowledge among the mass of the subjects of a despotic regime 9 He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is admitted to be a public benefactor ; he who introduces two ideas into a mind, in the place of one,... | |
| American periodicals - 1827 - 492 pages
...barbarous ; what is the amount of useful knowledge among the mass of the subjects of a despotic regime 1 He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is admitted to be a public benefactor ; he who introduces two ideas into a mind, in the place of one,... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1839 - 1066 pages
...compared with the actual valuó of the accommodations thus provided. It has been justly said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a benefactor of his race. In a how much higher sense can this be said, of those who open up fountains... | |
| Vermont gen. assembly, senate - 1845 - 390 pages
...SENATE, our animals while we neglect the improvement of man ? If he ia esteemed a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is not he a greater, who devises means for doubling the productive power of the mind of a people ? And... | |
| 1859 - 802 pages
...cheaper because it costs less money in the original outlay. If Dean Swift was right in saying that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is of more service to mankind than he who takes a city, we should be inclined to rank him hardly second... | |
| Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1896 - 936 pages
...Akron paper, he had one hundred and ten acres in celery, cultivated upon shares by twelve tenants. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where one .grew before, is a public benefactor, then how great is the extent of Mr. Borst's achievement, who made an unproductive... | |
| Music - 1863 - 844 pages
...Madame Sontag, and last and littlest, though not least, her sister, Adelina. LOUD DUNDREARY* The man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor of his species, and the author who introduces a new character is a benefactor to the stag^e.... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1865 - 560 pages
...those in which it is, not only absolutely, but even relatively most abundant. It is said that any one who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a benefactor to the human race ; what, then, shall we say of that which enables a thousand men to live... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1900 - 686 pages
...the universe affect each other, even at the greatest distances. He who makes two blades of grass prow where one grew before is the benefactor of mankind...obscurely works to find the laws of such growth is the intellectual superior as well as the greater benefactor of the two. — Notice of an aerolite that... | |
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