Memoir and Letters of Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Inventor (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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IN the following pages I have sought, with what success I know not, to construct out of material sufficiently abundant, a brief history of a very striking and individual character, and of a life cut short prematurely enough, yet possessed in its own way of a singular completeness.

It is hoped that no one who may read this little book will so misapprehend its intention as to look upon it as a glorification of personal success or money-getting achieve ment, after the fashion possibly of some biographies of inventors, biographies haply more grateful to the last generation than to us who stand (as it seems to some) on the threshold of a New Age: No one would more have recoiled from being ranked among the devotees of Ruskin's Goddess of Getting on than the subject of this Memoir.

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