ay a Cog feels
about being a Cog.

If a Cog in a big locomotive could take a day off and go around and watch
the drivewheel and pistons--watch the smoke coming out of the smokestack
and the water scooping up from between the rails--watch the three hundred
faces in the train looking out of the windows and the great world booming
by, and if the Cog could then say, "I belong with all this and I am
helping and making it possible for all these people to do and to have all
this!" And if the Cog could then slip back and go on just being a
cog,--the cog would be being the kind of a cog a man is supposed to be.

He would be being the kind of a cog a man is supposed to be in a
democracy-machine in distinction from a king-machine.

What is more, if a Cog did this, or if arrangements were studied out for
some little inkling of a chance to do it, he would be making his job as a
Cog one third easier and happier and three times as efficient.

A man is created to be the kind of Cog that works best when it is allowed
to do its work in this way. God created him when He drove in one rivet to
feel the whole of the ship. It is feeling the whole of the ship that
makes being a Cog worth while.

The great work of the American people in the next four years is to work
out for American industry the fate of the Cog in it.

The fate of democracy turns next on our working out a way of allowing a
Cog some imagination, or some substitute for imagination in its daily
work--something that the rest of the Cog--the whole man in the Cog can
have, which will bring his spirit, his joy and his power to bear on his
daily work.

This is the second of the two main points the hundred million people
would make in their book if they had time.

These two main points--getting labor to see how a mahogany desk
sweats--getting the mahogany desk to put itself in the place of a Cog,
know how a Cog feels and what makes a Cog work--are points which are
going to be made successfully and quickly in proportion as they are taken
up in the right spirit and with a method--a practical human working
method which so expresses and dramatizes that right spirit that it will
be impossible for people not to respond to it.

I am not undertaking in this part of my book to make an inquiry as to
what the right spirit is, or what the right method is that a hundred
million people ought to adopt.

I am a somewhat puzzled and determined person and I am instituting out
loud a searchin