48 Materials and Their Handling 



pieces varied according to the mood and the mo- 

 ment of their making. Fine things can be made in 

 this way, but they are not made quickly and not 

 enough can be made to give us the multitude of 

 things which serve our convenience today. 



It was necessary for us to learn to repeat the 

 same work in order to get things done at a speed 

 and for a cost which would enable us to enjoy 

 more of them without requiring an enormous 

 amount to be spent in getting them. So we had 

 to add to the skill of character, the skill of exact- 

 ness which would enable us to repeat the same 

 design or the same construction any number of 

 times. This is the development which has enabled 

 us to use machinery to such advantage and has 

 given us such a multitude of products and such 

 a volume of service for our social life and our 

 community existence. Some people think that we 

 have lost our skill of character in work in our de- 

 velopment of the skill of exactness, but that is not 

 so except in a general way. 



Products are made today of the utmost beauty 

 and they are made to last. There is much work 

 done which is work of sterling character, but, in 

 addition, it is work of exactness, repeated thou- 

 sands of times so that thousands of people can 

 enjoy the service of the articles produced. Only 

 a few might enjoy it, if we were not able to pro- 

 duce in quantity. 



Organizing the Skill of Exactness. Just as 

 soon as we learned something of the skill of exact- 

 ness and were able to repeat things, it was neces- 



