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Whitney (ELI an American inven)

ELI, an American inven- 1765; was graduated at Yale College, in 1792, where he he paid his expenses partly units, as merged in the larger personality the cotton from the seed by hand. by which he of the nation. This idea he develops mystically and with great earnestness; it becomes the means by the nations of men shall be as the states prophesies a higher evolution in which it becomes the means by which he the nations of men shall be as the states in a larger union, a league of nationstates, uniting all the world in a common brotherhood. says, "and greater far to be, the United States, too, are but a series of steps in says, "and greater far to be, the United Whitman's rise to fame was slow. As was to be expected in the case of one who the eternal process of creative thought." Whitman's rise to fame was slow. As so openly flouted convention, he was alternately derided and made the basis of a cult. The poems were recognized sooner in Europe than in America. But gradually his fame has increased. His peculiarities of diction and form, his inequality, his constant repetition, his peculiarities of diction and form, his less important as the propheti: ood. "Great as they are," he i elements of his work become more apparent. Since his death, at Camden, N. J., in 1892, his circle of readers has constantly increased.