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triotism, honesty, and fairness amongst the membership. 

 When the growth of this system of studying and of handling 

 industrial problems shall have brought about in maximum 

 degree steady industry for the masses, utilization of individual 

 capabilities and opportunity for gravitation of talent into 

 places of responsibility, the whole industrial system will 

 become, in the highest degree, efficient. Then, and only then, 

 can the nation attain its highest position on the scale of civili- 

 zation and its people become in the highest degree wealthy, 

 comfortable, contented, and happy. 



The coming problems are thus those of promoting the 

 advance of the nation to the highest point of industrial effi- 

 ciency and the resultant assurance of greatest prosperity, 

 content, and intelligence. Only where a nation is in maxi- 

 mum degree wealthy, and its people, as a mass,, comfortable 

 and competent to think out the problems of its time, can 

 a real and a permanent higher life be assured. The whole 

 history of mankind is an illustration of the growth of these 

 principles and of the progress of the race in proportion as 

 they are more generally recognized and acted upon. Inven- 

 tion, progress in the arts and sciences, and growth of education, 

 of general intelligence, of wisdom and of culture conspire in 

 the promotion of the highest and best interests of all. 



