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They make many mistakes because they attempt many things. Edison, Burbank, Ford, Marconi, and the Wright Brothers propabaly have an all time low in batting average. Ford forgot to put a reverse gear in his automobile. Edison once spent two million dollars on an invention which fizzled. The gigantic experiments of these men in blazing new trails made mistakes inevitable. But who remembers the critics who laughed at them?
The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is a brake on the wheels of progress. There are no thrills in his life; and there are no monuments to his memory. But should a friend of his achieve the goal over a road that was rocky and rutty, he is the one who boasts—“I knew him when. . .”
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