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special sort of knowledge of the world ; and also, Book n 

 since want, in the sense of efficient demand, depends 

 on the price at which these commodities can be 

 supplied, it is necessary, just as it is in the case 

 of the manufacture of machinery, that the army of 

 men whose labour is involved in producing them 

 shall be subject to men who, by their powers of 

 industrial generalship, will be able to reduce the 

 cost of reproduction to a minimum. Every business, 

 in fact, and every industrial enterprise, succeeds or 

 fails, not according to the amount of average labour 

 involved in it, but according to the talents and 

 energy by which this labour is directed. Thus 

 in the economic domain, even more than in the 

 intellectual, the great man is seen to be an 

 agent of " social progression" in virtue not of the 

 results which he himself produces by the direct 

 action of his own hands or brain, but of the 

 results which, being what he is, he causes to be 

 produced by others. 



And now having dealt with the great man as an And the same 



r i 1-1 n/r-ii principle is 



agent of speculative progress which, as Mill says, obviously true 

 is at the bottom of progress of all other kinds, and o" war, politics! 

 having dealt with him also as an agent of that and rell s ion - 

 manufacturing, commercial, economic or material 

 progress which Mill cites as the chief example 

 of what practical progress is, and having shown 

 how the essence of his greatness is his power 

 of influencing others, let us illustrate this truth 

 finally by a brief reference to three other kinds 

 of human and social activity which exhibit it 



