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rnent is successful th.m a number of men begin to 

 find out \vh a statement of 



the ti/iv and that is analyzed further until the ac- 

 cumulat of cxac ledge is very exten- 



sive and enables us to build rapidly from one 

 improvement to another without going aimlessly 

 in every direction. In the early days of the auto- 

 mobile, freak i ion, and new ways 

 of doing this and that were constantly cropping 

 up, but as the knowledge was thoroughly ex- 

 ,gcd between the Different men who were inter- 

 ested, it was not long before anything radical and 

 freakish was almost unheard of. The knowledge 

 had become so exact that men knew the necessity 

 for certain basic things about every car and the 

 progress of the industry was moving more and 

 more along lines which could be predicted with 

 some certainty. 



Section IV 

 The Man in Control 



Thf Character of the Skill and the Exactitude 

 of the Skill. The ancient hand worker, who was 

 * skilled craftsman, made good things and very 

 often he made beautiful things. We admire him 

 for the character of his work. He put himself 

 into his product and, when he was a conscientious 

 and skillful workman, that character showed in 

 his work. The things he made were not alike, 

 however, although they might be for the same pur- 

 pose and made from the same general plans. The 



