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and every worker and manager a miniature scientist. In a 

 word, the present economic system is industriously digging its 

 own grave and thoughtfully clearing the path for its successor. 

 What science has done for the growth and organisation of know- 

 ledge, it is beginning to do for the growth and organisation of 

 wealth. Stupendous progress in wealth production and well- 

 being may be therefore confidently anticipated. 



Eventually, no doubt, the two methodological streams will con- 

 verge and travel down the ages as a single stream, each having 

 benefited the other. Before this, however, is realised, other 

 spheres of activity education, public administration, law, 

 hygiene, medicine, domestic life, religion, art will be seized 

 by the passion for scientific re-organisation, until science will 

 dominate the whole universe of man's life and thought. 



The advent of the scientific efficiency movement offers thus 

 an auspicious omen for the triumph of the scientific method 

 in practical affairs. It represents the most hopeful sign of the 

 twentieth century, and probably spells the coming liberation 

 of humanity from the serfdom of drudgery, poverty, ignorance, 

 and barbarism. 



To dwell for a moment on the relation between the efficiency 

 movement and the methodology of discovery. Thorough in its 

 way as the efficiency movement has been, the scientific founda- 

 tions were neglected, because, first, practical men were at the 

 head of the movement, men unskilled in the use of scientific 

 instruments, and, secondly, because the scientific studies by 

 means of dynamometer, ergograph, and the like, were not suf- 

 ficiently advanced to be of practical benefit. Ultimately, how- 

 ever, basis and superstructure must become equally scientific, 

 and the efficiency movement will be able to achieve its pur- 

 pose completely. 



On the other hand, the efficiency movement has a profound 

 contribution to make to orthodox methodology. The latter's 

 attention was concentrated on what we might denominate ex- 

 ternals : truth and the mode whereby it may be reached. The 

 fitness of the organism psychological and physiological re- 

 ceived the scantiest attention. Yet the processes in discovery 

 are subject to the same laws as the processes in industry, 

 and if in the latter case far-reaching benefits accrue from an 

 analysis and reconstitution of the processes, advantages no 

 less desirable would ensue on a scientific analysis and basic 

 reconstruction of the elements constituting the process of dis- 

 covery on the subjective side. The prodigal waste of mental 

 and physical movements would be removed, swiftness and 

 labour- and time-saving methods would become universal, 

 strenuousness would be general, exhausting fatigue would be 

 reduced to a minimum, and everything tending towards rapidity 

 and efficiency would be standardised and practised. More than 

 this, the standardisation of efficiency processes will suggest the 



