Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... matters as well as large, and who, like children, must win every time, are not apt at negotiations. They will dislike to look at the arguments of others, for fear of having to accede; they will be loth to follow the suggestions of others, for fear of appearing to be led. Just Proportion We have advanced the idea that the characteristic virtue of the gentleman is that under the. complex conditions of modern society he is the one who best succeeds in selecting and proportioning the objects of life, so that there results an harmonious and effective character, the energies of which work in smooth accord with the chief uplifting tendencies of his age. The gentleman-administrator can then be no other than one who, when he becomes an administrator, refuses to forget that he has still to be a gentleman. When he is placed in authority over subordinates for specific ends, and must work within definite limits of cost and administrative necessity, he does not lose sight of the fact that, as an intellectual being, he must work for the general triumph of reason; as a lover of beauty, he must contrive to increase the sum and variety of it; and as a moral being, he owes allegiance to right in every department of his life. He is one who recognizes with joy that an organization which brings men together in intimate, permanent, daily relations, as does an industrial establishment, can accomplish, in addition to its immediate or principal object, a thousand incidental things to beautify the lives of those who are connected with it. Of all persons, in the present economic order, to whom industry can look for leadership into a more justly proportioned life, the administrator has the greatest advantage. His tasks are more varied and broadening than those of...
