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Show What the World Owes to Cranks. It was to the courage and persever- nee of a crank that we owe the discovery discov-ery of this great hemisphere. It was a crank that gave us the printing press, the cotton loom, the locomotive, the telegraph. tel-egraph. All the great inventors from Archimedes to Edison have been cranks, all the great philosophers from Plato to Herbert Spencer, all the reformers from LycurgU8 to Lady Habberton, all the Treat preachers from Peter the Hermit to Henry Ward Beecher, all the heroes who left their plows standing in the furrow fur-row while they went to fight for liberty under Washington. Kae Field's Washington. |