CHAPTER IV 



THE MEANS BY WHICH THE GREAT MAN ACQUIRES 

 POWER IN POLITICS 



in discussing IN discussing, with reference to political govern- 

 ment, the means by which the great man controls the 

 actions of others, it will be found that the point on 



politics the which we shall have to concentrate our attention 



debatable 



question differs differs somewhat from that which engaged it when 



from the ques- . . i r 



tion raised by we were discussing the same question with reference 



to economic production. For all the points which, 

 with reference to the directors of industry, it was 

 necessary to establish in opposition to the socio- 

 logical sophistries of to-day are, with reference to 

 the political governor, admitted by all alike. Thus 

 we shall find on reflection that the extremest demo- 

 cratic reformer, no less than the aristocrat or the 

 for the points strict upholder of autocracy, admits, firstly, that 

 " the satisfactory governors must be exceptional or great 

 men ' secondly, that the fittest great men can be 



producer are secured by competition only ; and, thirdly, that how- 



admitted by all ' -ill 



in the case of ever they are appointed, and whatever may be the 



the governor. . . , i i i i j 



principles on which they govern, their orders must 

 in every case be enforced by virtually the same 



