not asking people's permission in this book for certain events.

This book is not an attempt to answer the question, "What is day after
to-morrow's news?"

It is put forth as a prospectus of what has got to happen.

The truth is taking hold of us and is seizing us all.

It is for us to say.

This book is a scenario of a play for a hundred million people to put on
the stage, and for five hundred million people to act.

Sec. 6. _Who._

People will be unfair to themselves and unfair to me and will cheat a
nation if any attempt should ever be made to take this book as a
program--a program for anybody--and not a spirit.

The spirit is the program, and the people who naturally gather around the
spirit and who secrete it will have to be the ones to embody and give it
in the Put-Through Clan, its local and its national expression.

Picked persons, picked out by all for their known temperament and gift
for team-work--that is for their put-through spirit or spirit of
thoroughness in getting the victory over themselves and combining
themselves with others, will need to be the dominating people.

The essence of the Clan is that it is to be vivified and penetrated
throughout with personality, and with respect for personality.

This means automatically that the Put-Through Clan is not going to be
dominated by people who will make it a moral-advice, do-you-good,
hand-you-down-welfare institution.

The essential point in its program is self-discipline and any discipline
there may be for others will wait until it is asked for and will be a
by-product of the discipline we are giving ourselves.

In the operation of the Clan there are certain persons and types of
persons to whom the Clan is always going to be distinctly partial. It is
never going to treat people alike. People are not--for the time
being--alike and are going to be treated as they are.

Democracy is impossible as long as people are not treated with
discrimination--as long as people cannot feel and do not like to feel
that what they are, makes a difference in what they get.

It is obvious that to begin with that the Put-Through Clan, composed as
it is to be of the leading people in all groups--the people whose time
has a premium placed on it in their own private business, will have a
regular practice of giving the most attention and giving the most power,
approval and backing to those persons with whom the least time brings
the greatest return.

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