Captains of Industry: 2D Series, a Book for Young Americans (Classic Reprint)

The friendly reception accorded to the volume published in 1884, containing sketches of business men noted for benevolence and public spirit, induces me to offer another of similar purport and tendency. From my youth, I have been powerfully attracted to such men, whom we may properly regard as the natural chiefs of industrial communities, and the rightful successors of the feudal lords of another time. Nothing seems more important than that those who perform labor and those who direct it should be justly related to one another, and so cooperate effectively against the sovereign evil of the world poverty. This is my solution of the labor problem, and I believe in no other. For most of the persons described in this volume I have a personal affection, and this is th, reason why I have included in it one c,v ivoj nd-yiduals who are not exactly described by its mile: Such as they are, I commend themto MhJ consldra don of readers, whether they are now, or only hope to become, Captains of I ndustry.
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