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initiative and motive in the work itself, is going to take possession of
the markets of the world is based on the fact that labor has to have its
imagination touched in order to work efficiently, and an entirely new
level and new type of man--the man who can touch men's imaginations, is
being put forward in business to do it.

The Engineer is going to have somewhat the quieting effect upon
institutions and upon the spirit of unrest in the people, when he is
known to be in control of the great employers and has made them dependent
on him, that the matter of fact and rather conclusive taxi meter in a cab
has on the man inside, who wants to quarrel with his cabman.

A business world largely in control of men who have the spirit and the
technique of engineers will make unrest more awkward, will make the red
flag look stranger, feel stranger and lonelier every day.

Sec. 4. _The American Business Sport._

If any man ever again in this world finds like Methuselah, the secret of
eternal youth, the secret will be found to consist in being, I suspect,
what the best American business man already is--what I would call a fine
all-round religious sport.

Sport has certain well-known disadvantages. So has religion. The man who
once grasps the secret of modern life as practiced by a really big
engineering genius, insists upon having his business allowed all the
advantages of sport and religion both.

To have something on which one spends ten hours a day, which has all the
advantages without the disadvantages of being a sport, and all the
advantages without the disadvantages of being a religion, is a find.

The typical engineer, like any other thorough-going man treats what he
does as a sport. That is, he puts his religion for the fun of it into his
business. His business becomes the continual lark of making his religion
work. He dramatizes in it his belief in human nature and in God, his
belief that human nature is not crazy and that God has not been outwitted
in allowing so much of it to exist.

It has looked especially reckless during the last four years for God to
let human nature try to keep on being human nature any longer. Now is the
time of all others, and Germany is now the country of all others, to show
with a whole world looking on how essentially sound human nature really
is, and how being human (especially being human in a thing which
everybody cares about and which everybody notices, like business) really
wor