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The Inventions of the Idiot
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John Kendrick Bangs
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"Wherein,"
said
the
Idiot,
"we
differ.
I
haven't
forgotten
that
I
have
one,
and,
by-the-way,
it
is
from
him
that
I
first
heard
of
University
Extension.
He
lives
in
a
small
manufacturing
town
not
many
miles
from
here,
and
is
distinguished
in
the
town
because,
without
being
stingy,
he
lives
within
his
means.
He
has
a
way
of
paying
his
grocer's
bills
which
makes
of
him
a
marked
man.
He
hasn't
much
more
money
than
he
needs,
but
when
the
University
Extension
movement
reached
the
town
he
was
interested.
The
prime
movers
in
the
enterprise
went
to
him
and
asked
him
if
he
wouldn't
help
it
along,
dilating
upon
the
benefits
which
would
accrue
to
those
whose
education
stopped
short
with
graduation
from
the
high-schools.
It
was
most
plausible.
The
notion
that
for
ten
cents
a
lecture
the
working
masses
could
learn
something
about
art,
history,
and
letters,
could
gather
in
something
about
the
sciences,
and
all
that,
appealed
to
him,
and
while
he
could
afford
it
much
more
ill
than
the
smart
people,
the
four
hundred
of
the
town,
he
chipped
in.
He
paid
fifty
dollars
and
was
made
an
honorary
manager.
He
was
proud
enough
of
it,
too,
and
he
wrote
a
long,
enthusiastic
letter
to
me
about
it.
It
was
a
great
thing,
and
he
hoped
the
State,
which
had
been
appealed
to
to
help
the
movement
along,
would
take
a
hand
in
it.
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