 | Archaeology - 1871 - 542 pages
...suffering for want of food, the more densely peopled countries are exactly those in which it is not absolutely, but even relatively most abundant. It...indeed, many who doubt whether happiness is increased by civilization, and who talk of the free and noble savage. But the true savage is neither free nor noble... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1876 - 664 pages
...of corn on one acre of land than there is in raising the same amount on two acres; that the farmer who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is truly a man that the country will honor. An observing man can already see the good influence this organization... | |
 | Archaeology - 1871 - 546 pages
...suffering for want of food, the more densely peopled countries are exactly those in which it is not absolutely, but even relatively most abun-dant. It...indeed, many who doubt whether happiness is increased by civilization, and who talk of the free and noble savage. But the true savage is neither free nor noble... | |
 | Shorthand - 1879 - 458 pages
...Petersburg " .... " 11,610 6;770 4,840 Marseilles " .... " 10,500 4,030 5,940 It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor of his race. How much more is he a benefactor who has caused thousands of miles to be taken from the... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1876 - 750 pages
...of corn on one acre of land than there is in raising the same amount on two acres; that the farmer who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is truly a man that the country will honor. An observing man can already see the good influence this organization... | |
 | 1878 - 636 pages
...themselves some accustomed pleasures. VEGETARIANISM. The man, says the proverb, who can make two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a benefactor to the human race. In like manner, the man who can teach people how to live well at half their previous rate of expenditure... | |
 | Joseph Buckner Killebrew - Forage plants - 1878 - 528 pages
...the midst of his extravaganzas, uttered a truism that will go down to all ages when he said " the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a great public benefactor;" and when the citizens of Tennessee look at their own interest in a proper... | |
 | Noble Lovely Prentis - Europe - 1878 - 258 pages
...As an illustration of the dignity of agricultural pursuits, you often hear the quotation, that "he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a public benefactor." The whole paragraph, which may be found in Gulliver's Travels, is still more striking.... | |
 | Joseph Buckner Killebrew - Agriculture - 1880 - 172 pages
...the midst of his extravaganzas, uttered a truism that will go down to all ages, when he said "the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a great public benefactor ; " and when the citizens of Tennessee look at their own interest in a proper... | |
 | 1880 - 690 pages
...circumstance not supposed to be contemplated in the ordinary arrangements of social life.' We are told that he who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before, is a true benefactor uf mankind. What must she be who makes two loave* of bread stand where only one stood... | |
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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. 
