sive professions.
Partly through his own endeavors,--largely through association in
commercial or other organizations with his neighbors,--he may help to
accomplish for the benefit of all his fellow men of a great community
one step after another in the direction of public works that will meet
the needs of a high civilization.

Some of the most useful men, as well as the most unselfish and devoted,
with whom I come in contact are successful business men of large
affairs. They are modest and unassuming; simple and direct in their
methods; wide as the world in their sympathies; lofty as the stars in
their aspirations for human progress; sagacious beyond other classes of
men, and respected to the point of veneration by those who know them
well, because they are men of deeds rather than of words, who make good
their professions from day to day. Business has not so narrowed them,
nor has devotion to philanthropic ends or public reforms so distorted
their mental visions, that they are not able to enjoy what is good in
life, whether books, music, pictures, the companionship of friends, or
the restful contact with nature in field or forest.

The lives of such men are dominated by certain fixed ethical standards.
Given such moral landmarks, the remarkable conditions and unequaled
opportunities of modern business life will promote the frequent
development of men of this kind, with their breadth of view and
strength of mind and character. It is the positive and aggressive
attitude toward life, the ethics of action, rather than the ethics of
negation, that must control the modern business world, and that may
make our modern business man the most potent factor for good in this,
his own, industrial period.

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