ABSTRACT
It would be hard to overestimate the weariness and cynicism and despair that have been caused in the world by its more recklessly hopeful men—the men who plump down happily anywhere and hope, the optimists who are merely slovenly in their minds about evil. When one is being pessimistic, one almost always has the feeling of being rather clever. The big and really revolutionary thing about Wilbur Wright’s flying was that he changed the minds of the whole human race in a few minutes about one thing. The Electric Light Company has come to have a daily, an almost hourly, influence on the way men do business and go about their work in that city—the motives and assumptions with which they bargain with one another—that might be envied by twenty churches.
