...course, they must!" Nancy exclaimed. "Only the other night I read in a book that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to the world than all the politicians...

...THE PERIOD OF CLOSER SETTLEMENT. 1884-1920. "And he gave It for his opinion, 'that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race...

...responds that the benefactor to humanity most deserving of acclaim would be the one who could cause two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one did before.16 This in fact seems to be the fundamental moral maxim of the people that Gulliver later...

...live in the hearts of the yeomanry of Cornwall for generations to come. We are told the man who makes two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves well of his country. Gentlemen, if this doctrine be correct, I will leave it for you to say...

...of capital to purchase ; more generally from a disposition to stick to the old ways. If he who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor, so, then, is he who grows a double quantity of meat or wool from the same source from which one portion...

...field for investigation, development and the expenditure of energy? It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor; but who shall not say that he too is a public benefactor who takes the inert, rough, unattractive and...

...dismissed the life of a man who was truly a public benefactor. The old saying is true that "he who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor." WUat could be a proper measure of the benefaction conferred by a man who made the Western desert, once...

...sitting at the fireside in the American homes of the plain people. If it be true that the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, is a public benefactor, then the man who causes two houses to grow where only one was before, should be held in at least equally...

...the privilege of presiding over a meeting at which our distinguished guest is to speak. He who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor. He who with one talent helps one child, one boy, to rise to manhood and usefulness, is a great and...

...over all classes, as the people travel to and from their homes. The Echo suggests that if he who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor of his race; how much more a benefactor is the man who, at the present period of the world's...