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of work, the privileges accorded to a business necessity, these have attained a character as infpersonal and detached as the vagaries and tumults of the elements, and as unquestioned as the rights of a thunderbolt to explode into whoever's roof it chooses. Therefore, and because an enemy cannot be fashioned out of a wage-slave, he had made no enemies during his victorious advance; he eliminated the people who were in his way, and they, accepting, and, by continuity, obeying, the rules of the game, acquiesced in their own elimination when the time came and the rule was against them.

One often states a thing roundly in order that it may then be denied by amplification. Saving in the rarest and strangest of circumstances no conversion is sudden; no man ceases to be "this" and becomes "that" in the twinkling of an eye, for we are evolving continually and by imperceptible gradations from what we were into what we will be. But the moment arrives when heed is taken of the work done, the separated deeds rush together, the individual values are added by the subconscious master within us, and we are dramatically presented with a total and a new rate of vibration. That moment of consciousness is conversion and change of heart, and it is by this growth and conclusion of a thought that all men are changed, and it was in this manner that he had changed. His mind had been preparing itself for years to be the mind of a manager and a tyrant, and as soon as he became the one he had power to be the other, and was both. He sat in the vast managerial office which once he would have entered on tiptoe or glided from with a deferential back, and so well was he prepared for the change that he never even thought of those other days, or remembered that other attitude: he recommenced with a clean slate, a clean year, a clean heart: he was born again.

To his desk in the secluded managerial room the entire vast business of his company flowed in departmental reports or suggestions, and only that could occur which had been authorized by his hasty initial. He knew all that was happening whether near at hand or far away: he knew the stocks they held, and the stocks they had got rid of: those which were on order and those which were condemned: he knew why this department paid and why that other languished, or just paid for its keep; why such an official should get an immediate increase in his salary and much personal affability; and why another should be treated with brevity or reserve. All the machin-