Abstract
imagination. Such a man was Mr. Duke. To thousands before Mr. Duke, the Catawba River, tracing its length through the two Carolinas, was nothing more than barren and rocky banks and turbid waters moving aimlessly and uselessly to the sea. To James B. Duke, when he saw it, it expanded in his mind into cities, railroads, factories, hospitals, orphanages, schools, and churches; and also into an opportunity for thousands of his own people to be given the benefit and blessing of gainful employment; and, above all, into a tomorrow when poverty, ignorance, and suffering in the two Carolinas would be ameliorated through the benign and enlightening influence of benevolent administration of wealth. In Mr. Duke's thinking and in his great accomplishment there are example and inspiration for industry and education alike in their common task of lifting the economic and cultural life of all the people.
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