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those who were concerned in the production of this Book m 

 catastrophe were tried, it is perfectly evident that 

 the part played by the workmen would be sharply 

 separated from that played by the man employing 

 them ; and that, though they no doubt would have 

 contributed something to the result, they would have 

 contributed nothing to its essential and criminal 

 elements. It is equally evident that if the designed the conspirator 



, , , , 11 contributes the 



and attained result had been not criminal, but entire criminal 



beneficent, the elements in it that made it glorious 

 would be the product of the man who planned and 

 intended it, and not of the w r orkmen who blindly 

 obeyed his orders, neither knowing nor caring what 

 the result would be. Let us take another case of a 

 somewhat different character. When a spontaneous 

 cheer bursts from a thousand people, the volume of 

 sound is obviously the unadulterated product of the 

 many. On the other hand, when a thousand people when a choir 



. . ,.., , . ii sing Handel's 



with ordinarily good voices are so trained and musk, Handel 

 organised as to sing a chorus out of Israel in 



Egypt, the peculiar qualities which render the acter f the 



<=>- / -' sounds sung 



sounds produced by them valuable, obviously imply b y them - 

 the existence of the musical genius of Handel, or in 

 other words, faculties which belong to hardly one 

 man in a million, and are thus the product not of 

 the many, but of one. 



And now let us turn to the actual facts of life, and Let us turn to 

 the kinds of activity on which progress and civilisa- s 

 tion depend, and let us apply our two analytical 

 methods to these. It is needless to repeat, after 

 what has been said in a previous chapter, that it is 



