Nation: ON BUSINESS

With eloquence and emphasis, in public print and private word, Luce informed the U.S. businessman that he was a prodigy in the history of mankind—and should therefore live up to the responsibilities of his achievement.

> "The claim of modern industry on the brains and energy and honor and intelligence of man exceeds the claims that have ever before been made upon the intelligence and character of man. Modern industry, if we could only encompass it within our feeble imaginations, is the instrument by which it is given us to achieve in our lifetime nearly all that mankind has struggled for in...

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