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mands utility as reason for daring to exist, and that, therefore, average people must justify themselves by organization if they are bent on accomplishment of work in any large direction.

Professor Price, the political economist, asked his class of English students, and, later, the New York Board of Trade, to define the difference between men and animals; but it was a woman who replied, "Progressive desire." Her excelsior was a constant, definite improvement, which necessitates Order; that is but a name for Organization, and that again is but the watchword of Progress. All must fall into line and pass on the word, or else be court-martialled. Time does not wait to gratify individual whims. The world's welfare depends on us only as we add our tiny personal strength to that of concerted action. Ordinary ardor, forethought, and imagination weld all the possibilities of service and being into action, which will employ its

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