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expected in the relations between employers 

 and workmen ? In one sense these relations 

 would come to a summary termination, because 

 employers, in precisely the old sense, would no 

 longer exist. Organisers they would still be, 

 great would still remain their stake in the 

 business, much would they have to say to its 

 direction and management ; but in all these 

 things, except organisation, the men would 

 come to have some share. 



Therefore the whole human hive would come 

 to have a basis for harmonious working, a reason 

 for travelling along a road leading to a common 

 object, with eyes looking forward, instead of 

 nowhere in particular. Might not then the 

 antagonism of the centuries die out for want 

 of fuel ? 



Is such a scheme practically possible ? That 

 there would be difficulties to face is certain, and 

 no small ones. 



In the first place, it has been widely thought, 

 it was once perhaps universally thought, that in 

 almost any undertaking of importance the best 

 work is done when all guidance in that work 

 springs from a single mind, that the organiser 

 of the work should be, and must be, its real 

 manager, however many sub-managers he might 

 have. To anything like multiple management 

 objection would once have been absolute. This 

 need not be so now. 



The government of a nation is seldom con- 

 ducted by one brain. At the beginning of the 

 last century the men of England sighed for the 

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