hundred thousand men is what I am offering
in this little book to the nine hundred and ninety thousand others.

What will we do, what ideas will we carry out?

Get one hundred thousand picked men together and what can they not do,
what ideas can they not carry out?

What is hard, what is priceless, is getting the men and getting the men
together. Everybody who has ever done anything knows this.

What we are doing is not to get values together, but the men who keep
creating the values.

The men who have created already the values of five thousand cities,
shall now create values for a nation.

I am not writing to people--to the hundred thousand men who are going to
be nominated to the Look-Up Club--to ask them whether they think this
idea of mine--of having the first hundred thousand men of vision of this
country in a Club, is going through or not.

I am writing them and asking them if--if it is going through--they want
to belong to it.

Very few men can speak with authority--even if they would, as to what the
other ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine men will possibly
do or not do with my idea in this book. But any man can speak with
authority and speak immediately when he gets to the end of it, as to how
he feels himself, whether he wants or likes the idea, and wants to count
one to bring the idea to pass.

I speak up for myself in this book. Anybody can see it. If every man will
confine himself in the same way, and will stake off himself and attend to
himself at the end of this book and say what he wants--we will all get
what we want.

The proposition looks rather big, mathematically, but looked at humanly,
it is a simple straight human-nature question. All I really ask of each
man who is nominated is,

"If the first hundred thousand men who have imagination in business are
being selected and brought together out of all the other business men in
America, do you want to be one of them? Who are the ten, twenty or fifty
men of practical vision in business--especially young men, you think
ought not to be left out?"

It is all an illusion about numbers and sizes of things.

The way to be national is to be personal, for each man to take sides with
the best in himself.

Suddenly across a nation we look in a hundred thousand faces.

Sec. 2. _Why the Look-Up Club Looks Up._

The Constitution does not provide for an Imagination Department for the
United States Government.

It has judicial,