It is a case calling for a manly admission and a manly defense.

I ask again, if there is anybody else than Goodyear who made this invention, who is he?
Is the discovery so plain that it might have come about by accident?
It is likely to work important changes in the arts everywhere.

IT INTRODUCES QUITE A NEW MATERIAL INTO THE MANUFACTURE OF THE ARTS, THAT MATERIAL BEING NOTHING LESS THAN ELASTIC METAL.

It is hard like metal and as elastic as pure original gum elastic.

Why, that is as great and momentous a phenomenon occurring to men in the progress of their knowledge, as it would be for a man to show that iron and gold could remain iron and gold and yet become elastic like India Rubber.