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output, and sports (fencing, boxing, gymnastics) are carried out 

 on the same principles. 



We must never forget that the battle of life is essential to 

 humanity. Let us, therefore, assure to the worker the largest 

 possible yield for his labour, so that he can both live in comfort 

 and security, and also give value to those who employ him. Let 

 us also watch over his health and organise " social hygiene." 



Strong nations do not suffer from the scourges of alcoholism 

 and tuberculosis to the degree that we suffer. They do not 

 trouble about hydropathy or Swedish gymnastics, but find a 

 growing energy in a healthy and active existence. They find a 

 new strength in the work of each day. 



Taylor's system, supplemented by due consideration to 

 physiological conditions, and applied patiently, wisely and tact- 

 fully, gives a scientific solution of the social problems of industry, 

 the relations between capital and labour. Its principles must 

 be accepted, and its practice applied, because it is, as has been 

 finely put by one of our great writers, the function of science 

 " to throw across the clouds of to-day the rainbow of the peace 

 of to-morrow/' (* 



(*) Frederic Winslow Taylor was born in 1856 at Germann Town, Pa. 

 He rose from an apprentice to be Chief Engineer to the Midvale Steel Co. 

 The system, which was the result of his experience and observations both 

 as workman and manager, had a long struggle against prejudice and " rule 

 of thumb." He had to meet the opposition of socialists and syndicalists, 

 and even of economists, who had their own systems to further. Thus 

 Admiral John Edwards, while realizing the educational value of Taylor's 

 system, considered it far too complicated (Journal American Society of 

 Naval Engineers, May, 1912). 



No critic has, however, been able to confute the principles which Taylor 

 laid down (except, in so far as Taylor's neglect of the physiological condi- 

 tions of labour is concerned). Schuchart (Technik und Wirtschaft, January, 

 1913) has demonstrated the value of Taylor's methods in the evolution of 

 the workman and the development of his individuality and initiative. 



THE END. 



