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that progress is a sort of unity, — that no individual can pro- 

 gress very far by and of himself, that no organization with 

 some particular .work to do can do that work successfully for a 

 long period of time, unless that society takes into consideration 

 the work of other societies, probably far remote from it in 

 purpose and interest. 



The man who would be a great man must be greater than the 

 thing he does. The doctor who sees absolutely nothing but 

 the narrow line of his medical profession, who does not see 

 that all other professions and all other businesses must grow 

 or decline with ihis, is not the doctor who contributes much to 

 ihe life of the community, or to the general advancement of his 

 fellows. The business man who hves for his business alone, 

 who fails to see that the business of his competitor, the busi- 

 ness of his friend, in some other line of activity, is important, 

 who looks upon all other things as sort of enemies of his, is 

 the business man who sooner or later, generally sooner, goes 

 into the hands of a receiver, or into bankruptcy. No one can 

 get very far in this world if he bases his life upon a selfish 

 interest. Recent years in the business world have given us some 

 splendid examples of the fact that business that grows and 

 waxes strong is business that takes into consideration the gen^ 

 eral welfare, not only of those immediately connected with it, 

 but of all of those who in any way are remotely served by it. 

 The old method of railroading of a generation ago, a method 

 that looked upon practically everything as an enemy, a method 

 that proposed to extract the largest amount in pay, and render 

 the smallest amount in service, is a method that has been found 

 fatal to development and progress of the business itself. 



Out in the far northwest J. J. Hill, the great railroad builder, 

 brought inito activity the new and modern idea, which is ac- 

 cepted by practically all great business enterprises today. His 

 guiding principle was that the business of the great corporation 

 that he was developing would grow great only if he could make 

 every other interest of the community through which his lines 

 went, great also. He gave to this country perhaps one of the 

 first and one of the best illustrations of this matter that I am 

 talking about, the unity of progress. He realized that if his 

 money was to bring him returns, returns must come to others. 

 And so he interested himself in the improvement of the cattle 



