 | 1905 - 924 페이지
...also to the many who are its beneficiaries as consumers of its products. And if it be true that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor, much more is he one who produces in abundance some of nature's delectable and wholesome... | |
 | National Drainage, Conservation and Flood Control Congress - 1916 - 106 페이지
...remarks brought a thought to me. What we want in this work is visions. There is a saying that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a public benefactor, but you men are trying to make 100 bushels grow where none grew before. To do this,... | |
 | Webster Perit Huntington - 1906 - 628 페이지
...if there can be concerted efforts against war why not concerted efforts against famine? If the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor, the fact is based on the other fact that man is enabled by skill in agriculture to increase his crops,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 548 페이지
...dead, and all go down to the pit together. If I could, I would worship the parings of my nails. If he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor, he who discovers two gods where there was only known the one (and such a one!) before is a still greater... | |
 | David Fisher - 1906 - 582 페이지
...exemplifying in an admirable way the best attributes of American citizenship. JOSEPH DUNKLEY. If the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor, much more is the one who introduces a new product into a region and there multiplies... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1907 - 168 페이지
...the correspondence school, are not to be measured merely in statistics, nor in dollars and cents. He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor, not only of himself, but of humanity. He who improves his intellect, so that it gives him the capacity... | |
 | Jenkin Lloyd Jones - 1907 - 470 페이지
...any trace of primitive man where he does not also find evidence that the dog was his companion. "He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor of the race." This is an old, good, and true saying. Perhaps the first suggestion of such wisdom came... | |
 | William Hartley Jeffrey - 1907 - 502 페이지
...dealt in general merchandise, flour and feed, until his retirement in 1890. Mrs. Nye died in 1887. "He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a public benefactor." Mr. Nye's example in progressive farming was followed by others, and was a public... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1907 - 174 페이지
...local. It is in no sense provincial. It is national. And its scope is no less vast than the universe. He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is really more than a benefactor to humanity. These people have made a thousand blades of grass to grow... | |
 | Katharine Roney Crowell - 1908 - 110 페이지
...well-being he is giving his life, risking it often in his search after knowledge. An old saying is, "He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a benefactor," — one who does good. What can we say then, of a twentieth century pioneer who is making — not two... | |
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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. 
