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Future Supply of Cotton," 1864; "The Collection of Revenue," 1866; "Free Trade and Revenue Reform," 1871; "The Visible and Invisible in Protection," 1872; "An Easy Lesson in Money and Banking," 1874;" "Argument for the Conditional Reform of the Legal-Tender Act," 1874; "Commercial Development in the First Century of the Republic," 1876; "Industrial Reconstruction," 1878; "Our National Domain" (chart), 1879; "American View of American Competition" (London), 1879; "Labor and Capital Allies, not Enemies," 1880; "The Fire-Engineer, the Architect, and the Underwriter," 1880; "The Railroads of the United States," 1880; "The Unlearned Professions," 1880; "Address on Banking," 1880; "A Reply to Prof. Bonamy Price," 1880; "Cotton Manufactures of the United States," 1880; "Addresses at Atlanta, Ga., at the International Cotton Exposition," 1880, 1881; "What is a Bank?" 1881; "Elementary Instruction in the Mechanic Arts," 1881; "Address at the Annual Banquet of the Massachusetts Charitable Association," 1881; "What makes the Rate of Interest?" 1881; Address on the Right Method of preventing Fires in Mills," 1881; "The Solid South," 1881; "The Railway and the Farmer," 1881; "Kentucky Farms," 1881; "The Influence of Boston Capital upon Manufactures," 1882; "Significant Aspects of the Atlanta Exposition," 1882; "The Rapid Spread of Communism," 1882; "Address at the Opening of the Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute Fair," 1882; "Inefficiency of Economic Legislation," 1882; "What makes the Rate of Wages? "1884; "Address to the Chiefs of the Bureau of Labor Statistics," 1885; "The Distribution of Products," 1885; "On the Application of Science to the Production and Consumption of Food," 1885; "Prevention of Loss by Fire," 1885; "The Hours of Labor," 1885; "Address on the Silver Question," 1886; a series of monographs (in "Bradstreet's") on economic questions; a series of articles (in "The Century") on "Food and Wages"; "The Margin of Profits," 1887; "Report on Bimetallism in Europe," 1888; a series of articles in "The Forum," 1888. Of these papers, the address at Atlanta, in 1880, was characterized by Judge E. R. Hoar as marking an "era in the history of the country"; and the book on the "Distribution of Products" was pronounced by Sir Louis Mallet "epoch-making."

 

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It has been advanced as a weak point in the theory that man has received his qualities by inheritance from the other races, that when men manifest extraordinary qualities they are such as are entirely different from those possessed by any other creature, and peculiar. Human prodigies excel, not in the development of animal traits and instincts, but as wonderful calculators, great moral geniuses, or phenomenal musicians. The most wonderful instincts of the lower creatures appear to be extinguished by the advance of reason, instead of being stimulated by it; and men who transcend humanity do so not in the respects in which they have inherited most, but in those in which they have inherited least.