Do you know
that by merely hitching a pulley to the back of your neck
you could generate enough power to light your whole
office?"
We hung our heads. Simple as the thing was, we had never
thought of it. "Very good," said the Stranger. "Now, all
American business men are like you. They don't think,--do
you understand me? They don't think."
We realized the truth of it at once. We had never thought.
Perhaps we didn't even know how.
"Now, I tell you," continued our visitor, speaking rapidly
and with a light of wild enthusiasm in his face, "I'm
out for a new campaign,--efficiency in business--speeding
things up--better organization."
"But surely," we said, musingly, "we have seen something
about this lately in the papers?" "Seen it, sir," he
exclaimed, "I should say so. It's everywhere. It's a
new movement. It's in the air. Has it never struck you
how a thing like this can be seen in the air?"
Here again we were at fault. In all our lives we had
never seen anything in the air. We had never even looked
there.
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