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192   HISTORIC GROWTH OF MAN.

CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY.   193

changes in government and institutions unless we have manhood, courage and wisdom enough to embody in these institutions the best scientific knowledge that man now possesses. It will cost no more to do this; it will require no more time, no more wealth, than it will to make the partial, economic changes which many socialists propose.

The present writer is not a novice, just opening his eyes to the need of social changes. He has given fifty years of an active life to a study of these social problems. Through history, through science and through personal observation in many countries, he has sought to examine these questions from every possible side. It was not until (in 1859) he had read more than forty books on social science and reforms, that he found why these many writers had all missed the source of an exact social science. They had failed to see that the source of all man's conscious social wants is in the mental faculties; that these organs of the brain are the acting forces that directly produce all social phenomena, all functions in society. To satisfy these wants men organize institutions and choose officers. It was an easy step from this to see that all these faculties and therefore wants must be represented by officers and departments in a complete social organism. So far in history, guided by history, experience or instinct, men had only represented the lower half of the faculties.

As each faculty produces its own class of wants, we should know with exactness the number of the faculties. The writer thought it worth while to spend three years in their careful analysis and classification. Even the matter of architecture took three

years of special study. The universal language has

taken five solid years of work. If the present book

is late in its appearance, the reader may rest assured

that its positive style of statement is justified by a long

and conscientious study of each subject introduced.

GREAT CAPTAINS Of Industry will not be difficult

to find when the time comes to call for them. In

both Europe and America many large-hearted men

of wealth, who employ hundreds or thousands of

workmen, have already learned through a generous

experience to see the safety as well as the wisdom of unselfishness. These employers have spent millions of dollars of their profits in furnishing attractive houses for the workmen, with good sanitary conditions, large gardens, reading rooms, swimming pools, entertainment halls, open air theaters and recreation grounds. They have made these as actual gifts or of easy purchase by the workmen, giving them back some of the fair profits of their own work. The employers have not done all this noble work because the civil law or the church required it of them. They have been prompted by their own sense of right, of humanity and natural justice, to make these great changes in the conditions of their workers. They have felt that the workers have helped to create their wealth and are entitled to share in the resulting prosperity. Not such prosperity as politicians love to talk about, such as is shown by "full dinner pails. " Instead of that these workers enjoy the pleasure of large, well-kept dining halls with warm, well-cooked and well-served meals, at actual cost prices. And in their own charming homes these workmen eat breakfasts and suppers


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