steady and skillful doing of one's work, or in the gradual but inevitable decline and decay which accompany and follow the slovenly, indifferent, or unfaithful performance of one's task. "Men have nowhere more conspicuously failed to escape themselves than in their works." Now, before manufacturing and business engineers can qualify as human engineers, they must surrender unconditionally to the study of human life from the true viewpoint, they must adhere to the dynamic mind fundamentals incorporated in all life. ENGINEERING CHAPTER IX DIRECT MIND BUSINESS THE MANUFACTUR- HUMAN neers who operate with direct ENGINEERING mind involve a certain indifference, not of contempt, not of meanness, nor any other degenerating mind element, but of preoccupation with higher and nobler elements of life. A certain lack of care for the criticisms and opinions of others, not from coldness, envy, jealousy or selfishness, but, because one's judgments are formed on a different basis. The manufacturers and business men who persistently and positively design their own life's work and bring out their own characters to a higher degree of perfection have an inward purpose, an invisible aim; no one but themselves sees the mark to which they are constantly directing their efforts and attention. Humans of this type may be apparently slow in rounding out and forming their ideals and purposes or in perfectly visualizing their ultimate ends, but when those ultimate ends are once clear to them they are forever free from all uncertainty and doubt. They travel through busi |