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Excerpt from Virginia First
In the war for Southern Independence, as in the American Revolution, Virginia furnished the Ideal Man. In one war it was George Washington, and in the other it was Robert E. Lee. Both these great men were distinguished by the union of a handsome person with a supremely majestic soul, brave, refined, digni fied and clean. They were, indeed, kingly men.
The contributions of Virginia to science should not be passed by in this summary of her priorities. Among the creators of an epoch the following may be mentioned particularly. James Rumsey first dem onstrated in her waters in 1786 the possibilities of steam as applied to a river boat. Cyrus Hall mccor mick revolutionized agriculture throughout the world by his invention of the reaper. Matthew Fontaine Maury about the same time did the same thing for ocean navigation. He furnished the plans for the lay ing of the Atlantic Cable, and was the father of the modern science of torpedo and mine laying. In recent days Walter Reed, of Gloucester County, was fore most in discovering the cause of yellow fever and rendering that dread disease innocuous.
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