If anything he has written shall 

 serve to make men think just a little 

 more of the General Plan, and a little 

 less about their own personal advance- 

 ment, the time stolen from his own 

 business, to his own financial detri- 

 ment, and devoted in many instances 

 to so-called trifling things, will pos- 

 sibly not have been entirely lost. 

 THE AUTHOR. 

 Chicago, September, 1921. 



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