Identifier: efficientman00west
Title: The efficient man
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: West, Thomas D. (Thomas Dyson), 1851-1915
Subjects: Success Employee motivation Industrial efficiency Personnel management
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Gardner Printing Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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telligence or his true character byappearances, we are not wholly without means for develop-ing his intellectual powers very materially to aid in allthese respects, as well, as for other functions. Some be-lieve that man cannot develop his perceptive and concep-tive powers without the mental training of colleges oruniversities. However, from the authors knowledge ofmen and afifairs he knows that good mental training canbe accomplished outside of these institutions of learning,and in a very eflfective manner, too, if there only existsthe will to do so. In fact, all evidence goes to show thatthose outside of educational walls who once start volun-tarily to think and study for themselves will generally keeplonger at it and accomplish more than those inside of .UlIKHN/NU THE DORMANT INTELLECT 33 them who have the fascination of ball games, prize fights,boat racing, joy riding, etc., to attract their attention insnch a manner that little else can ever so enthuse them totheir best efforts.

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Look ye not to the right, nor to the left.Fig. 2. VIRTUE MEETING PUTRIDS THAT BLIGHT Many come into life, graduate and go out of it, with-out stopping for any noticeable time to seriously considerall that is involved in the marvelous creation of the uni-verse and of mans origination. They never stop to thinkbut that it all might have sprung into existence by some-thing or somebody touching a button or presto-change and it came. 34 THli Efl^lCIENT MAN The inventions and production of thinkinjcreation large numbers see and use for their own pleasure,gayety, ease and comfort, but that is all there is in it forthem. This class comprises among others an almost in-conceivable number of our supposedly best educatedyouths and many adults. To be alone with books andprodded by an instructor cannot excel the opportunities ofan earnest and persistent investigator and worker leftalone wdth himself in any study to comprehend the mar-velous or invent the new. As one of the main qualities that are de

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