American inventions and inventors . rgetfulness of self. How important is the position of a lighthouse-keeper!Many lives are in his hands, and on his fidelity depends thesafety of millions of dollars of property. Boats and ships ofall kinds, steamers great and small, sail away from one shore 96 AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS. of the vast sea to the opposite shore, or along the coast, allin comparative safety because of the various beacon lights. Indeed, is not the lighthouse itself a great lesson in morals?Every one of us—every one of the seventy million people ofthe United States has a par
American inventions and inventors . rgetfulness of self. How important is the position of a lighthouse-keeper!Many lives are in his hands, and on his fidelity depends thesafety of millions of dollars of property. Boats and ships ofall kinds, steamers great and small, sail away from one shore 96 AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS. of the vast sea to the opposite shore, or along the coast, allin comparative safety because of the various beacon lights. Indeed, is not the lighthouse itself a great lesson in morals?Every one of us—every one of the seventy million people ofthe United States has a part in the lighthouse. It is we, thepeople, who are furnishing the government with its resources,and it is the great government of our country that builds thelighthouses to warn mariners of danger. The modern light-house is the symbol of benevolence. It carries with it thelesson of loving thy neighbor as thyself. This is the lessonof the lighthouse to the people of the land, though its serviceis performed for the people of the CYRUS H. MCCORMICK. SECTION
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