Henceforth civilization may be based upon higher motives than the Search for Food. The struggle for existence may become the struggle of the nobler nature for its full development. The gentle need not be eliminated by the strong. Instead of contending with one another in an unbrotherly competition, men may move upward to the higher activities of social self-preservation and organized self-help. By mastering the problem of the bread, they have opened up such opportunities for education, for travel, for happier homes, for the prosperity and friendship of the nations, as no previous generation has ever had. And it is here, it is in this larger and kindlier civilization, that is now made possible by the Reaper and the wheat-mechanism which has grown up around it, that we shall find the full spiritual value to the world of that stout-hearted bread-winner of the human race whose life began among the hills of Old Virginia one hundred years ago. THE END INDEX A Adams, John, 15 Adriance, John P., 103, 119 Advertisements of Reaper, 54, 81-83, 112, 134 Africa not a wheat-eating country, 242 Agencies established for sale of Reapers (about 1844), 63 Agents, Cyrus H. McCormick's plan in regard to, 83, 84, 86 Agriculture, Department of, 87 Albert, Prince, 125, 132 Algeria, 242 Allen, Grant, 205 _America_, yacht, 131 Amsterdam, 222 Antwerp, no grain stored in, 217; Bourse in, 222; third busiest port in world, 239 Appleby, John F., 115 Argentina, 209, 212, 225, 228 Arkwright, inventor, 53, 131 Armagh massacre of 1641, 22 Athens, mills at, 236 Atkins, Jearum, 106 Augusta County, Virginia, 3 Australia, wheat crop of, 209; legislation against speculation in, 225; development of, 228 Australian stripper, 200 Austria in 1809, 4; farm laborers received no wages in, 123; climate and wheat production in, 241 Austrian Emperor decorated Cyrus H. McCormick, 135 Ayrshire, Scotland, 86 B Babylon, 206 Baggage Case, 1862-1885, 100-102; _see also_ Pennsylvania Railroad Baltic Exchange, London, 221 _Baltic_, holder of ocean record, 131 Baltimore and Ohio Railway, 49 Baltimore Convention of 1861, 158, 166 Bankers concerned in moving of wheat, 223, 224 Barbary pirates, 4 Barclay, Col. A. T., 40 Barge, invention of, 210 Battleship turret, improver of, 95 Bavarians in the Tyrol (1809), 4 _Beagle_, H. M. S., Darwin's voyage in, 51 Bear, Henry, 66 Behel, Jacob, 115 Belgian method of reaping, 6 Belgians, King of the, 125 Belgium, legislation against speculation in, 225; consumption of bread per capita in, 239, 242 Berlin, 214, 217 Berthelot, 51 Bessemer converter, 17, 49, 69, 210 Bismarck, 136 Black Death in England, 124 Blackie, 1 Blame, Mrs. Emmons, 183 Blanchard, inventor, 95 Blue Ridge Mountains, 2, 36 Board of Trade, none in Chicago when Cyrus H. McCormick came, 70