ange things and change the
hearts and minds of people and the spirit of a nation.

Anybody can be a revolutionist or a reactionary. All one has to do is to
stop thinking and sag, or stop thinking and slash.

* * * * *

The mills of the gods grind slowly because they grind fine. The main
difference between men and the gods is that when men do things on a large
scale they are apt to slur things over and be mechanical, do things in
huge empty swoops--pass over details and particular persons, and the gods
when they do things on a large scale pay more attention to details, to
microbes and to particular persons than ever.

* * * * *

In national issues of capital and labor, the opinions of employers and
workmen who have worked out a way of meeting the crisis on a smaller
scale, who understand one another on a five or six hundred scale instead
of a two or three million scale, would be treated by the Air Line League
as probably weighty and conclusive. Those classes of employers and
employees who in a marked degree have failed to have the brains to
understand each other even in the flesh and at hand with both persons in
view themselves, must expect to have their national opinions about
national labor and national capital discounted by the Clan. The
Put-Through Clan nationally will grade the listening and ranking of the
demands of industrial groups upon the assumption that people who slur
over what is next door are not apt to be deep about things that are
further away.

Sec. 7. _The Town Fireplace._

The outstanding fact about our modern machine civilization and its
troubles is that crowd-thinking has seized the people--that people see
things and do things gregariously. We have herds of fractions of men,
acting as fractions of men and not as human beings.

Each fraction is trying to get the whole country to be a fraction. Being
a fraction themselves they want a fraction of a country.

Ten differing men can get together and agree.

Ten differing crowds of men--of the same men, will get together and
fight.

Crowds are self-hypnotized. A man who would not be hypnotized off into a
fraction of a man alone, with enough men to help him becomes a thousandth
or ten thousandth of a man in twenty minutes.

If five crowds of a hundred thousand men each could sit down together
around a fireplace and listen to the others--if each crowd of a hundre